Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4c95aed75c5b11f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:02:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d6b77c1cc15e9d3f1d43604b5f596f4d SHA-1: 9bfa9445bd9b130e7e9cbd64689abd82afa1dc59 SHA-256: a4c95aed75c5b11fcf28dabf69df4458a493729095c34c53af286f5c1da7ee7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spirituality+and+psychological+well+being+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://scherzerpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/25622829545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16074cbd438735---zizikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1593u5usaif3q351ge05jhppb/36323144024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/78308454732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mweb.cz/images/file/zubazizimikufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ns5o1u6vmr2dbpf3klk9egd9d/dozazevozisakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210622175923_oggovt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210726085445_nx935u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfim0bbdubqvi3m861u1tcg9ic/mobesogisabakuxutadikadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bollywoodsalonskokie.com/admin/images/file/kidarupazute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8pi3pqmdhs2qchnr2hg38nv6s/29316060269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/rewegasurob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/35789150188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/23839771736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sahfaiqilkk8dliirdcog2eg25/najapamagabunozobube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cad95729e---jalebokedazutez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32240p13tjl1scqkpvtd6kaa8p/nurajasavadepadulisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbfassadenbau.com/upload/file/35329059144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/xajuwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.ind.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94737400453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/46387794725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094014b7524a---venikos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/60957251522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synersys.fr/contenu/file/40931843687.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_off0000fefc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFC 20364 bytes
SHA-256: 9454df395c525dd0367585fe26a862b3bf4c42bbc9811fd4f7013c42cbf1c514
font_01_sfnt_off00013427.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13427 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014c3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C3E 11416 bytes
SHA-256: d902bed0dbd4318db134ee44c4c3000b1901c8809cac5a95fb54deaa8811c1c8