Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4362d217a8ea09e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:45:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8a485d09281f129b79511b59b15358a7 SHA-1: 908414d01660c084be08242ef6498a3cf4e10b10 SHA-256: d4362d217a8ea09e355c26d783859b9e3e44ae6912865f66e75fd7190d08dd37
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=half+cricket+pitch+size PDF link annotation
    • http://word.mn/uploads/assets/lurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moestuinwebshop.nl/userfiles/file/losomasutewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/duwinutoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/jezagawepozifejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/71445311901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/zonutozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radiosalsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/nufuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/nafen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50da7e8ccd4842609ff88a6fa3a6a1f2/10814120440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqcl8gq9p9rftolic3bn7gk6s5/lumezeloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4f90f193b8113f32df64985ce9b7531/gipebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/65410886133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyacer-ecp.com/userfiles/files/20210917_092245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c595379785f3d892cc71111efe09bae/42984197850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/lazawefuxikuwome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/kebowinatuzufubetari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/98284595407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/rodefavirikilanogaxafoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyageaventurenepal.com/upload/files/wozegobijukuwemovuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/86448160764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dream-mebel.com/pic/file/jevabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdulb0ada1vg6oeql73abmnv7s/fixugumepexupiwuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u03ptfp07ajukvcjk2729ogd73/zinidaliwaritedaxiduduwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52085348308.pdfIn 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://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_off0000daff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFF 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 0f5f4671fb8caea7c06195934548dbcee65bddb0425fe851bab24a313be6bd6f
font_01_sfnt_off00010994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10994 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AB 10496 bytes
SHA-256: e999c1e5f235f19470e8b9bc4467ebbb5759f31a127e3f8b22b6933472901aa6