Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca414de5784492ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-07-12 16:36:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 30135dbad3b955b0398b3e74bf2f88fb SHA-1: 39813682d9ecfc7da9a20ce199b11724f851b533 SHA-256: ca414de5784492ead2360d55d16d621cf1a50e4102df01ff1861dd027e3be19c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935d6fa44d66dad6278fbe7e212e3de2/59400872557.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://psiakocky-potisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wovamifisukawexejagiseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjprlhj1happc7lh5glsnhu6u1/xugesezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diakmelo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voxasuwedezajogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b3dfbbb55b38ae3281efcb8c029e763/60633082877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da25f3b1841---10046993575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.com/userfiles/files/xusarotemepekoxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a38c6e8cdf2d621331ad870bf45a7752/guworesinawajipunagodozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha7mec612pl1lpe2rmade3lr67/lekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/vamowume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cafad27ad2b---kakos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c379665340c7154b2d6c034a1c605003/23367664495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb23506f01b081f97498827b6b6ef3c4/66384344532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvtamminhphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/zovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8d3dcf17e8ab0f05f277da2da10ca1b/60234508982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2e21fc6a19a53f94c7b4ca7b42107d2/riwiribebavalewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/17242335385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741bb38e290---leboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p1134t6egonji2tohjvom588r/41534611670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remproekt-m.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5405346091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/87943121150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799c1f7790e---32415686154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8dbff9c140e1aa07bdc38e7b2cdbaf8/zimafubizijir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d767589ccac---jifedewiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitali-schulz-eiskunstlaufen.de/userfiles/files/mubofonutivorebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=scanned+pdf+to+word+document+converterPDF 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_off0000be90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A2 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 9a8163a4ad0876a218d466a04dcd657afb90318bb3b579628ef54c54c6135eb8
font_02_sfnt_off000100dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100DD 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 29515832ff2364902fa16860cb9b3bd949afa9a0a58cf51b38b6a7cf04fcb5f6