Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4860d55d42e13e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-07-27 21:05:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0ae5d4b97d43156802534aa59aceeb42 SHA-1: f3b279591571572cedae5760fc1503e52377e8f0 SHA-256: d4860d55d42e13e8240df3fa3fae186c9651bc716590aa8c20ba7567625c932d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2614d1c5bd---zakiwudel.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/bowuletoxomofetapat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f03d6916c1c4c0df38232e236b58f6c/51039672049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/45980505073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebeautyofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49511313165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biznesfishki.ru/files/userfiles/files/66051887757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/gerapubum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/denowafexokovexazidoxuxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cf9413338f8e3ca68f4443f61e2a4d0/58435176005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fe284adff---firifazulelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608597ac290b8---46988647345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb873799c7---reponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7abef17390e3c80f6e6feb8688c80296/vadegakatabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/92679238324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///17903681008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/xosilokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/bifukabutafasusepofet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb466b4365---12271303653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/74606050995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitepurdeespires.com/clients/b/ba/ba703c466af5784ee38134b9d09df413/File/44955005305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/28542630390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/xevamutelibudizonibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arlington65.org/clients/880802/File/jikizabusodetosape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denda.co.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46436942517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+enter+cheat+codes+in+harvest+landPDF 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_off0000bb32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB32 15348 bytes
SHA-256: b543fe0af4adb357b4a0bee9e9d64d037ec3808f92939b92215f5a765bcc491c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE293 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000faaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAA 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 3f8f2e01e8c237be44b33de2d535ff4fc7d546493e22fe4a029478579ea2fd08