Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6a43f1483854830…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:55:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d0f8fc0e5563b6369faa37cd540b755f SHA-1: 8d7cc9e7252f2877074fa825035cd57b5021cbfe SHA-256: a6a43f1483854830280faa3fb805dc2be631f1f319188da3852f4214676386f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious intent related to URL redirection and potentially SEO abuse.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9523

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://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vujetitalakekinapo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/99567725201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6a5a8c980232e7341fd9f12810bfbb7/zugaxexeguzapamabosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf463fa189c8655b251a977e4f47aae9/nuwegurolewumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e606dc2028657253f6a58a1f822db9f/jenurelebag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc57d771593---62867800800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b372feec44---2760487247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6c8b30aaa6bd0de64c21c77ad318fef/vukubabubuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maryalo.com/userData/board/file/84107180200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad320d52807---kafuwutogupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhzhengli.com/upload/zeziwomewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dcd68ba8db---rorin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fef045cb733---69847053002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/69155820726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3153e88d4d---81795147097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immobiliareincentro.it/allegati/file/51947349615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462ea6d1681a39ca6913479d96362240/lewatisifenapamunalakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/60151003956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theloneranger.tv/clients/loneranger/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3564808368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac84ce9b398---34250426534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161251f1f5e065---bususefezatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf3b53b17a---38932687890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmresearch.org/userfiles/files/8715759744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7dd972d27c801d35d41c99b6a588293/61013191415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-inmobiliaria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vl5vn06aiqdnsegbvi9n8o6t64/xefariju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609260484f52f---mozupavezetatizidiwogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gejedisike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ddc+controller+honeywell+pdfPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e19f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B6 10496 bytes
SHA-256: afad1363850178e7520d89ac131011408ab246d5c50bf6dee7748225a64cdb95
font_02_sfnt_off0001118b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1118B 24204 bytes
SHA-256: 04c0578fbb76a6244bbbe5a2312dac68afbb2a5adec5bd47dc6908eb5d2f2cd3
font_03_sfnt_off00014d50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D50 1956 bytes
SHA-256: 767f3a4e7663472bdd3bb305a012e186aaec4ced2fdf34129d797c7929af7a87
font_04_sfnt_off00015656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15656 16232 bytes
SHA-256: af293b2b60dc5e826b00d8953dd18f37a59bdd939ad7d7593537948814e7f124