Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4b70559444a355c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 25f524a6298c45eae2356d688ca011b7 SHA-1: b20fa681816f072ceb6aeff9f9dea8cdf0d0f09a SHA-256: a4b70559444a355c65cd104b3dd757c74a939c7141006d3bc7eb240ced02ca2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure and embedded URLs align with common tactics for luring users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://nenkin-t.com/upload_img/ck/files/15329464775.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825b42e4ecf---9876109284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/pamebazosinisoxonesode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/44168730602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed5fc5d371---datolelumekefowirutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/larorelixuvidelaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdc6e09e54b02626a4ab85c9ddea2a87/13988283384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c39a6466a7a3c6dd7d2760645b3775c/53061393732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/89874415266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54a728b79c---vagebewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/25166109989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riondene.ch/img/uploads/file/fixopoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/81902511096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4845040ac75e25692c4296d6de245ef/jawebavagudodimifimuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/90698868297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a78197ac4---88355882158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/26760754619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/47035108186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/53141058167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///55509076043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kieryk.pl/img/userfiles/file/95182573787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimayphat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/setagosedomibaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mentaplywood.com/images_upload/files/3643493137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742a5200f62---kutuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210606030024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=spirited+away+piano+score+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_off0000e17c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE17C 20804 bytes
SHA-256: aae23236b185b2d1952169c7c5bf806ce7dc1843daa78424c7e682d4ed6ee49a
font_01_sfnt_off00011845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11845 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001305c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1305C 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 49300d11a4e9ac7dec3d846fdba6f8b5d0e0bb17d9e69f3f64ee522b29edb374