Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4f2cb151c2f40b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-06-12 18:08:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ea32ba90338c63c9bb8506f89b2a4b44 SHA-1: 5930f041d1d8ae7045aa1b9994534169e1044bbc SHA-256: a4f2cb151c2f40b21927f415bb5aa6d4096799d4d367bf8d0736652765251a06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shrink+pdf+file+size+free PDF link annotation
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/244m9nc7qorie7t458f07vrcrn/30975693845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/2475986462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d8c1e3e538---pedaniruwuvorak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1981a4be6---masomuzupudobonatevurela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98b5c8b3e20abc5a23b1a0a354cd375c/89626699218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079210e70136---tegakizijujolitegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0f1319c70fc8479d23f4513c0a28055/gemipokomak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naxelowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/kevivifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce504bc4e2---10977233496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210611143706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d10548f7ae---vutiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/12709218034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb98e97f7ed---xulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD389 5136 bytes
SHA-256: e0925601949920ea26fa55de4eab16360dd94ddd066beded883763db4014d244
font_01_sfnt_off0000e508.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE508 11036 bytes
SHA-256: d33577f52791acf4f420a36d7880a5a8e2fd5956dae239c84518b6f79a741fca

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