Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df4a761ab7749656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:35:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 16cd74dc8f2313a3e8c5ba64ce555e5b SHA-1: c954a4f752b9729ea01b8d480dec5f904ba0eaeb SHA-256: df4a761ab7749656d493934d117f73ee8bc26f426b7773e71ef32495b81470b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cannibal+spell+for+king+unis PDF link annotation
    • http://www.celso.org/download/matarewudis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7eca1de3bea2da580b2be8e649b289/bodutexuvapipaxukomoturog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/kaxogiboweligerepotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/kiranaxapavetunev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607568fb0df94---61404463759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oqcfjifjjgtoc4l54crnqumr92/62634446825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/sobokasof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loforikemidigefowedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standardpromotion.com/images/upload/userfiles/files/26703363946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97159fb5b19d15e2bda009f1a10bceed/94433755632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8041acadb---gowava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tumokadununivije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34317cff597f017ae5f8082516382043/xazogorofalexuvunajofixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f823e0b6c28f79c4476486ddbddc90ae/39054047565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ve8ks0j24kiceetqvjpe95nkgr/6083044726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14a03107f3dd170c085d190893031d21/76921921043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8035fcbafc49ead13b9fe027974147ae/zivifamogeluzerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070af4747a83---62182844819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876ff14deb4---givutilomoxevarekafaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/zabixupokogijegadira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3571f0eb08db7739feb189d106debb24/komugapavosugosokalokoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architects-desk.com/uploadsfile/57297050595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wipaphun.com/UserFiles/File/51084115882.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_off00013107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13107 16764 bytes
SHA-256: 3297f6e1dd5a3c81995b7423f31cb03ebc8001e20a32b726b3a670378df76e18
font_01_sfnt_off00015cb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000174ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174CA 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 33a4365eb13c7b489034a1e59056d55ba75ad391d9a01b97184864271454221c