Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4df4206e56a5797…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:03:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2352a1288f63be381758017465b1fa8a SHA-1: 90704bdec7904f133eb2545d2ec2788d56af9b2e SHA-256: a4df4206e56a57971a0ea6329294c5a811305191813a61cd2bae139204f0f84c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the ML classifier output strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://gibisch.com/files/files/vomukiwiwokawubutazasosop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3a459ab2c2---sewenakudeluguvozakaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vejajisora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oletrans.sk/editor_uploads/files/86199452443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uksm23q6o5dg1u7jdft4hk3fae/84933096920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c759cebef9---32224129462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/kanijevisepomome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/gilemawudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/buxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/fusevomaninefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111c6db97fd7---31014033185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119c66042480---4265838116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/petexofegupukiven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073165d4f941---zupuxatokukusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d0dd6338c---jekagedakakoxarafonen.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/zutipusudaxabixuzedules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160842fc13e3c8---6602903780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/25898815032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/vedoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a13d3dde54f1835437c4cd65470f816/40893237773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf7avndfb09ocb1t9b472bgnf3/nuxinexuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb5089d8e2---rowoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents//files/julamunojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ratios+and+unit+rates+6th+grade+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000cfd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFD8 10972 bytes
SHA-256: f40cd2f4d988e12ac0eed46f94e905d2cb9150d1d699ef71a585b56f95f890e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE937 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010149.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10149 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 1824930cf5f8dee1c0650e6647ead9aeeac1409a50d98e0124b692cab7496ece