Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4b9b59f02c5ae4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:58:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3a1e02360abf8d65de801a1be7f26a9f SHA-1: 31c991b365b1e600932f5f851a18e490ca53f1a5 SHA-256: a4b9b59f02c5ae4e1091fd2f5911b24141b59626f13764dcd41a7843c4eb1542
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tohfa+tun+nikah+in+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8baa9b4a6---78110281033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97bb99b7e049c9b9cc4f217df744e2d6/16106771112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/kexosajujixiwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.upperhousedev7.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58969265308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a574f5606e---leguzowerid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/16570287539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/xumemuvamovepinodakosufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents//files/magobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00f165f13bdc01be643e06cdfb9d6dab/nelibaluwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thumpamonpally.com/userfiles/file/82275289074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambient-interier.cz/files/files/75742227559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd17b98a4d952ffd61d06b50e7872f39/10213396534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609981a0f32ab---95026013877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonderful-foods.net/userfiles/file/4386391415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/votub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mama-light.net/business_school/uploads/file/bemerupatadezovurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/monusubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/44407542916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2373b88e8---pukoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/23542426344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qllur8dkj8kkv12kavvqr1i8sb/21252481298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/51690580016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8bc816b1c---leponuwetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/jaxotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off000178d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178D3 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 8111cf63b519e09e5605634b011d627974034d5d4934912177225ea069ebb59e
font_01_sfnt_off0001918d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1918D 23016 bytes
SHA-256: 080144e378b51ac9309807a291613e5820e1f3f5d7be0d85ae4935b7027a111c
font_02_sfnt_off0001cda0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CDA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1