Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04471d06bc640dce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 033761cc434af7cb2e695cd768eb9955 SHA-1: 6d135eca5dc843c7c79c4ad25996e3ce2a7c696f SHA-256: 04471d06bc640dce8b0fc21e8e2e934f3cd5d52eac245018e3d3c85d20ae3182
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The 'SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE' heuristic indicates the document instructs the user to copy and paste content into a command-line interface, a common technique to trick users into executing malicious commands. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggest a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0bbb74eb48---15335727316.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c60ead5209---23565802769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a369e56d78---mizoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb7970c281---topirakilitewizagiwisekex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086062dcaa30---43366268700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15353dc17edcd982e0432b925a0f94b7/beteranupolekedenavuxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c58010eacf52a6ce26f3c6e7378f834/ronedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbedf727196---xuroxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/61417768118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dad60433835477ff8b8de3597df04ca/84040216339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogo-rotterdam.nl/files/zunitegazuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5f532a365---xavewolomepuxidaret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otvorene-srdce.sk/userfiles/file/86744279548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/zobakatotusipusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/59530001760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/39521802856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a0f128b28---27253985474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5isudo9hp5kfkmh728ssngbd0/20894095514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a36ef607f4b88ba9e608e3eac95e44/1757341733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/kasoxixugakomilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00b73dp29ln977tnv4gb01jml8/lugiposomedeniremi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/davemawoxurinozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a44db55ecd945608882508c590ea22a/86897495655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=git+push+to+new+remote+branchPDF 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_off0000ebb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C5 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 1d6ee2628233b9d3249984e9b52040694de65dba11adc5e4a7fa0423329df040
font_02_sfnt_off00013116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13116 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 3e085718836585c8930c7d75687a7763785ad62c5a552ed6328c6311bc217b05