Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d4a5d13f5162454…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 15:14:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 504618c4eed3ba18e2f8714a3e7cc4a4 SHA-1: 1dc41afe4cd3ef2fbf096372614567655fc23939 SHA-256: 1d4a5d13f5162454e30f21f99a2ef83f0f372f77b79e156fc1c82c968111778a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malicious content delivery attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs are indicative of a phishing lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55044bdf4551e8b0fabb9618bf8adfbd/jamiw.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0c7a4ca60---temikijid.pdf
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/5324922429.pdf
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aee0447c81a7c92f6b154c0c1f82d29/ziwapupun.pdf
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/98509071625.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbq2ptafs50nt2j51c6c73li9e/jiviniraniwomit.pdf
    • http://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/noguzofakujopemiviloxi.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7f2336650---sodefesapuwepiribod.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a87a0cc80---82656549562.pdf
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/36967933378.pdf
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7l0up3f29h63ur3qanibouirv1/21086294001.pdf
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/96586686946.pdf
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/601035c5029bce01d3e6847149b0e11a/zagosodagosokaxikozirido.pdf
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/46019852697.pdf
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3764d87c9a896a00d07f0f4cff0d5874/kulevojanujeme.pdf
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/rajuxu.pdf
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/silofudikav.pdf
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/nulosawomejivukanasagigot.pdf
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/84029797118.pdf
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/fowad.pdf
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075afdb7d4cc---88851918789.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8eda9cabb---53410482891.pdf
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/35795691884.pdf
    • http://vendingchat.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/83439805253.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+driftwood+arena
    • 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_off0000f24c.bin
0f3e06f6174cf08cbef895376a20dc4227dd7b85a901b0620a8a1c03dc3eee49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF24C 19188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012425.bin
0a3045954dd2ad01db11a226d89d27d459bfa4ffd0e6475f59699fdbcc74cd56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12425 10288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013b50.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B50 16792 bytes