Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4afeca4f5117769…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 07:44:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b2d3987b904584cb1a9399db3f964845 SHA-1: 52b99ad0179c772636b223ec2bc93e7de239891e SHA-256: b4afeca4f511776927fe33ab8b2eb8b6340afe81fe8ea1ee355a3ae950a0c334
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a likely phishing or SEO manipulation campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1626130430.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/096bd1e2a78bdcd20ac56d76dae1aa8a/81242513292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/worotukipaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f2caa67bf---87557696389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/barejubawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ddf755624---mofupotuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2533c4a90e---pasorikinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/47119304177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2804de5addfeef04e042d709ff4a22/45347807365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210704114127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e173089b247c0663c088e0c44e1ac0/31237131917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22l54kr5jk5ojb25nakumn1iki/vokenewaburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/wepozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqf6udtvggd40sranfclvstqu4/599596742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/61151506905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ndmoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wivinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/pogefuzukebudixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/754fb8187877ed7d4b9f2b3f71292874/52423344977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c88501d8b07---mekujataguzegonuxisedibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d528a03026f790bf01c6db5c5294c8c2/bavubewobawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents//files/50341535950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea644f2f5e854bd6ed9666a237d77e5e/nizesujozodosaxizuwuvadof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moyaexpresss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofezamifeteduletilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e68cfcce84d7464e282aa0b56922aef/90928290658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=2007+dodge+caliber+manual+transmission+fluidPDF 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_off0000e047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE047 17892 bytes
SHA-256: ce4a2f23c1711454c8e95196db231cd9246e6128607ed002e093720429b6a80a
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C0 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 0c8413987fa0530bbad581a085c8430916c2b8bc0246ca79390578c3a18ef257