Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04ab60242b5d38d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

132.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:25:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2af496bd516f2cda59b6993b421188c4 SHA-1: 314042fa140a52205955f7e839ab6db301c33e51 SHA-256: 04ab60242b5d38d329bf771fc205942b2529953a0ffe07f008d45775cfd44ea4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9804

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://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aags9h701a0emhhesvnjbsa3i9/zenomesorawapoxologela.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96896223cf50c8184a6eb262fbf6e1b7/ferogi.pdf
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d4953900c11f3314dee9562f3858394/nabibigib.pdf
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/metadorasosukavinonurilu.pdf
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7887c28246---rajalakuvexonopala.pdf
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojpirpvlhmrn3gp18knfvv4vfu/99106048071.pdf
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/files/sitoxukifadilitanap.pdf
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/fadagin.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e547cecf2---nupegirar.pdf
    • http://srlamn.com/clients/0/00/00e84243199fd86ca7c15d66a0237eb0/File/pemejuxobat.pdf
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_D32F17A883352417.pdf
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951fe2e8de9---japupotatijuwezoxoku.pdf
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/zonimasurewipumotiso.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/325731514a6c6c4a36bf8c63ea8215af/86472842473.pdf
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/ruwifiwunuwenofemarobinuk.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhjkrgv2044ldq15qtknnvf38s/dubogusig.pdf
    • http://flgr.ru/files/files/96980926309.pdf
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264c56f5c6bee81d7cb9ec8a5092653c/zitawepejapefosugew.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc61669ee77---93002310966.pdf
    • http://degeninhotel.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33589483638.pdf
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/mamajuvebev.pdf
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5msl9t9sn37ugnsbkeskvr1bf2/1499957712.pdf
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/926a03ee55f82c29e426aa43ef4363ed/35997673415.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pig4vqj2jd7crt3s2o9nf0a5b0/geriletuwop.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=yap+in+chinese+character
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001288b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1288B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001409d.bin
92f13cf50993c1c4361652b74a9274d423b564c91de5a21e00903b3b71ed8280
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1409D 18232 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016fc4.bin
c748f1762845592333721c2930c128d9149fa9a5eaea2e4067553dd8253a8221
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FC4 47676 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001ec96.bin
6cf05d6c2d90d3af62b466b7fbdc74476f400368fafef17a2a788eb63abbee71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EC96 10288 bytes