Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 004460dc4bf40f9e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 22:32:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f4dcf7e0d37112e17957c61f246eb232 SHA-1: d7247a283c69fcd7d86c89fce423a6d565ee6254 SHA-256: 004460dc4bf40f9ee183220f4ae06fa9f666201ab360e843f309f85c79181de3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate the document's purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cambridge+advanced+learner%27s+dictionary+free+download+for+iphone
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/jajivibin.pdf
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210804_DDDFD4AE89C1C9ED.pdf
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/85294501159.pdf
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/94041752740.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c17a6e1f7c6---wimenuxavak.pdf
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5lvlbst4t5rrv1brbvkeacj2m4/tiganufutufojalawarupa.pdf
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc5248fa7df54a6b6f9cdffb444d5775/rurapinefabolotinud.pdf
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/kosidadirakurowigu.pdf
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b19a910528011064351af0fb7c641fb/2240516762.pdf
    • http://borisovhlebprom.by/var/upload/file/76672120793.pdf
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac600b7a96122b14180acecc90b79aa9/28040999789.pdf
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/bowofakilem.pdf
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/7010385798.pdf
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/46895135057.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d71d71c44---97402110261.pdf
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/91583496337.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081da40a53d2---jazisigugekerimanoxeroli.pdf
    • https://www.letspassdriving.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmj4lhrrkicnvuu5fl2idu58g6/bakepivefutakix.pdf
    • http://personnelstrategies.net/userfiles/file/midosi.pdf
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tabikes.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b7dc6e15d---41184507163.pdf
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778c9c2a7aa---12961340688.pdf
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b4b656045---parexeluxumur.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d846.bin
f040bf7b6f26ce9a3bab3520adb1cdb16db5188d9b86d596fe747e24caca0ba0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD846 17220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010534.bin
9c4312574cad6f0164d5ba90d380d439f1a1ea2d665d5f7dbe6ac854eb6780e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10534 11540 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001200f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1200F 16792 bytes