Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4a227e72f48c87c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-11 21:17:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7c4d2e383afb6753d45ba6b7b09b9aee SHA-1: 7e06e455d360f84a3c443fed0b327158bb15cd1f SHA-256: d4a227e72f48c87cc94bfe4e18b1da3f7c1dae9e2afff90f2f1fda51cf43796b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these URLs and the overall PDF structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=shutdown+monitor+android PDF link annotation
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/wozikijegede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wyslijpaczki.pl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/file/98806958566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frutalmente.pt/site/upload/file/lusota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a207a6950ff22be0914ef3c5a5ce76d4/maworoxaturidurogununariz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69821723804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/kojopilosixeduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/suzakuvuvipafomuvisosevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b562b8c59---84547900982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/79716033058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thibangoto.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/tizivogivemepowaloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/zaferinuwipovomefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a943ac6dbe---76608209129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fitusegikesofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/33922984455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lazasusid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8d208b420---88078379308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah1.com/contents/files/xatenilapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swift-tw.com/lcc/upload/files/75108614650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iasvn.org/Images_upload/files/vokujobajagumudikuwewenub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a5afaf8bf---73036701974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/xubemoge.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_off0000f209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF209 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 31b3e35686b28696fc6d255cbe57cf7ea06a7e4cf7f733620daf9a2f13f9bd13
font_01_sfnt_off00011f07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F07 10428 bytes
SHA-256: e9cef1da64b4a8611d64530f31a21ae2fb972fb85fadb53506bc609951ccc805
font_02_sfnt_off0001367b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1367B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1