Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4a9e17741cee4e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:56:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e7d4b48c0d87c6596cfe2272f7e5751f SHA-1: e506ee4583822dfc6305905093711ec168a06a72 SHA-256: d4a9e17741cee4e6020909f8482d9ff1bb9708bbbc69398d12c60d4f0abf88eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=renew+my+pa+driver%27s+license PDF link annotation
    • https://gobelsprofil.com/upload/files/91563593846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hgrho42l590h0od84a084dova5/juvizebowito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/vozogiwavodazulatuvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b769a2799---midixiwugodavalewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studionegro.net/userfiles/files/xodavinino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84309bcf60---91415528993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/wuxatakokubif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/17244481757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/gogemelijefadegawepigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/815f77b2295f17213cac6fc4b4e72e74/44000521208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/zelesasolosugalaxesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vep7hibim75h918bulpq39tvm2/16988134135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54164909899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ae5hmh9443jrvbgpvvmrb2aj6/golikimajot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862d1bc25d8---82961203076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8e73b0f37---xawisitosatelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/xemasugoji.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_off0000b176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB176 10804 bytes
SHA-256: ad9b05ac86990a08bd917f82c549a385ae6594c4459a1a1a8728db0ead42a57f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE276 14724 bytes
SHA-256: 72cedf7cace917bdf40d9aced3acd045b18c047dca298eb0978288c5ac4b0009