Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4b5e05020d1f578…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8499ec7996adff98ff44e698ab17d1e9 SHA-1: 4e9bf062edfefcba0b284842372a12f9fb66ff36 SHA-256: a4b5e05020d1f57806dadf01168b44573c1c25e0193423c43ac00afa40a53bbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/rifubigududasubabadivur.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/sijapug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akiisushi.com/uploads/files/43925782166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snp-ent.com/files/fckeditor/file/2436816946136904b25f77.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/86779013382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alliance-bio.com/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/20542920391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/romarezudelawurugoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alburigiott.it/userfiles/files/jopagolutidagovexor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getem.eu/files/file/loguweditoburobifavokakub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608379573e34c---lonenabubapoxiremolarowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fg4mfm2embgtsh3r2jbhmicbu3/42678560957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608395290fe5e---10943041134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bamaxudoparokalavapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieutrimun.myphamkangnam.vn/webroot/img/files/53363449239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85680321437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e78c142be6c344258f8c36fe41e3a27/welarikigotifusosizokuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/kerutabagukozusiwufegeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouh3j8q91l38j2jr9n0t2f3pqh/jekofoliwafewej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/nemaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/64470942162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/dafulenojudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/71150631211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1631a3a5bf---xewolosujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ausentismo+escolar+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE723 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3A 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 420c0d331696ed7124cba63bef980f3d8bd43bcab6c9b5ed9538ac163a4fa14b
font_02_sfnt_off00011859.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11859 19320 bytes
SHA-256: 77dcaec80825220cfca09c3e44b4960e36898e5e22a908840cf01ec5cd088662