Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4a39b7a3396cb45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:11:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e7cb639262e570b75b4e3a09cc4b154c SHA-1: 444a97ecbeaab113fda5bfdbec54f9f114adb160 SHA-256: e4a39b7a3396cb45e6f095fe78f84a9fe5158dcb56febd05c4b80679ec01fcad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tm5236e0n4lerjbv296b4i83te/1910433002.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1639a40c21---7274572301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/borekfv9hk7uqecl55d7moc610/wodofumomuwuxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a438585da32---rotafaxikovifudabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/53743850995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eed63f84c3a4fc8844a6357036737fb/sorajowedejivawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04910a88d5887d7732b65e1b2a4babf5/mavapopikok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/60924243554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a56d38bc60---duvibatelezegaxigadova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qisue72mfj1siot37svriftdf0/kodajekopifokovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/vapugipedexifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labsshop.com/d/files/josojogutologedupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/183e7oc7jtc7oqens6o7dc19a0/89495953181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4smontreal.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/26525124793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/28421033112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d607dc0d4acb37d0d2f0c67e366003b/78817232349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cae580eed---fesuzowofoponaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/fulubazuxozixelisedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12985943a2a58d0d75050308bc4c0ae7/favezejiwakiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbr431t8gv4likqv9d3f2smenf/59207185140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/43329579657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/53715609238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7783e425f3---55517480589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mmalappeenranta.com/tiedostot/files/najulosuratinifosaduwagor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/76285746267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=kmart+hand+steamer+manualPDF 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_off0000da27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA27 17884 bytes
SHA-256: cb402a78231a60a4fe47c6a6ccd738d4d17fec77990c5bccdfd973079c8a56ab
font_01_sfnt_off0001092b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1092B 10392 bytes
SHA-256: a5902a73e4007102cfe9b17bb06cd6507fe562c8ffde9d64501cb697686968ff
font_02_sfnt_off00012076.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12076 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1