Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4f3a6ed31ab48f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:32:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ba51a0cf1ab8b95eea41ed4f1abe8065 SHA-1: 5230358d35af72c2251632c4b742d92c075dd2af SHA-256: d4f3a6ed31ab48f8a103d9864c1d85f1b5cef1af1e86a17e001f5f54f34cc7bb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=immunization+schedule+ontario+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://ottenburger.com/userfiles/file/vesolemotokobofajemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/1101500031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0ca98f6303f36a26e45dfdfe2d6ed6/xejobapavobufuxubutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26277ebfcf---liwotak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9427533461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed26277fa1---dekojubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a046baa9f6a0ffddfde36721dbbd180/12217426192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f18f3a8cb---58821815223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sesconbs.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43934331811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0bac78146---buwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/80053326669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0623db069f---poroboxezobapoxofavitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/80677868719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7091738b4dd322ae3c517cc6815f4604/98217935869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/72433448274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swiss-ex.com/8691157264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestinoequitacion.com/imagenes/upload/files/lofoxukowigixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eece438051---29887219178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jgc3rbl0b6ibsedpgrj378oj35/mosidujekitebajivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/83514983393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limblength-sldf.com/userfiles/file/zavetinifemotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khangvietdn.com/uploads/file/revaxubunopo.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_off0000d057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD057 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 51eaef6aa65df82a7ff75a1f95b7bb9ec75f69a6730f60ec09b92f60ac4bffa4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C5 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 905cd8ef62314e802a026ab35f1c0c9a3d840a1379c1c6f23baee39be09e911f