Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4d206b280f444a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:05:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 550c0b5e717fced8b23ece86332210c9 SHA-1: 1a9e6c486306ff322e63a1d3075f4ac7e5ecab7f SHA-256: a4d206b280f444a90686f66e9224642d3bb6527ddd501a622559ed0d4e023ab8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9902

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://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/pixamokovuzenu.pdf
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2efb1c16223de61a647fb0477bcb4d76/59281353133.pdf
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/3625489213.pdf
    • https://candbco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48787380601.pdf
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e58819cfda679a3b634160a33c69b5f8/40092681769.pdf
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/80086067396.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076757e63ca0---nilezukexede.pdf
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/kelex.pdf
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/jaduxuxadotojuwari.pdf
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfeacdbecd---406447639.pdf
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/23027840401.pdf
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/43609890118.pdf
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783b212654b---nugimasogorepev.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a25e6bc4e---vurisulazubejamizofevigu.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/neradeto.pdf
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/5455867868.pdf
    • http://bungefamily.com/clients/5233/File/ziniro.pdf
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66250138d68a7607e694acd8c0131cba/46529580308.pdf
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d238aa87b---vawodopuzetepu.pdf
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/990f24a89d179dba659f049d6d09c8eb/70371501087.pdf
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b62de812ff---waterisufifitovo.pdf
    • https://exlite.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibidamodepotufo.pdf
    • https://celebicatering.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zugudineriw.pdf
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c333b9e1ff4572f4a4bbed7b5125b379/77846730171.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=where+are+tulips+grown
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000101d3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000119ea.bin
c80bcbc021fe1dd4105d28116f784b0dd4447e06218cc6632e8490c822b65dc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119EA 10708 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013281.bin
cd79959763adddcf9fa775cdb482d246f8133a4f5cc318b73f1832371c52a85e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13281 17668 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001608b.bin
c31d39e0db86fd28c963abcdada6be7b00665cc3fff47dcd9464a94352859ea4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1608B 16452 bytes