Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a94d414f3b20bf25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-08-06 03:47:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5c132878edc92b02688b1e09970298b0 SHA-1: 44faca071f8ba57e7dd52c051a6aebf3c5b89613 SHA-256: a94d414f3b20bf25d49c1ac8311ffecf22b5d9d1e03c19f5cd740b1f3007907a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a link farm and a lure for a specific document (Volkswagen manual) points towards a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vjnr0omgelgks290o6mfb4if2/sodirepuki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://taiyoaquris.cn/upload/userfiles/files/20210703034630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/80362635250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/49453731493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/xomorurufixexakevevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/75015491207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents//files/20207723769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/85493858462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dtto001cu34qtlskp5798j17n/gopegipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saint-florentin.charcutier-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesiduzosufolefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/nemibodifutegirisorotepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/17497574138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608977e88f391---58153963337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pj3im2a6ua0pkt8br57ghsk3c2/jolusogozojogawujakemari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/japepezajekato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9499417585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/90829173549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://culbertsonlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/83545562549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/jitusabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9cd65a038---38930130977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pet.nfe.go.th/m_site/ckfinder/userfiles//files/metim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3drm.bg/uploads/pictures/files/88732474813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6fa7cb295---vozofowiluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/buvakoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=volkswagen+tiguan+2017+manual+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11841 11332 bytes
SHA-256: 83e7346749111fae5f6338820ef6c9b32322ada4a53ef583886f80fd512cd12d
font_01_sfnt_off000132e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132E9 17772 bytes
SHA-256: d22547aa38568121bb3a1461e318625837850b9461b543808deb329b2d47fdce
font_02_sfnt_off000161cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1