Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c4ba17f86348cc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:58:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 10f9e6e17cceb064a688a9f6dfa2be23 SHA-1: 43e56eefda10f341a033780b0c49d19c635fcfbd SHA-256: 2c4ba17f86348cc486f9a06106388ca24187f0e3abb935841be68a24d3a0bc4b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user interactions, common in phishing campaigns. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure to download further payloads or phish credentials.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dispositivos+de+entrada%2Fsa%C3%ADda+e+suas+propriedades+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53abedf0e3---88112517988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4d95c1cf0fb51cfd7a0434ba6e8498d/zolixumovifuvimipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podolsk-kondicionery.ru/upload_picture/file/bujaxubidujomesexufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f054290658---62060154215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a005546e88e---wakejiposavatasifajokakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitoutdoorz.com/file/CqIEgze0irjwfzXT.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/41079841668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/lixexufebifafelaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dng58lad2r8ncpea5viuf43a55/luseseguwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314b80b65d9---vegukuzovim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37520b3404---66830071795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/27809646172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/lapatokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8hgjvsnvnru6b8su56akmfn7b/59929059807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/222m3jbksj1froo6t1v9hakqi4/gitofapolalolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999ca09d7b9---12616693955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91466630270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ekoforte.com/upload/file/fokeruwokagipedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb05de88a2c---jurumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da61f254e7---kexogavokufetuwiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/19125138427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/339dbbc139145a707a6e142da323b669/92801585506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaorganizasyon.com/ckfinder/upload/files/66778254994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c639b45a8---liriwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b5e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5E3 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 1aa5af76fc1a4aa245002974373296514772f1a7eb2b37c9cbb1adb819ac0486
font_01_sfnt_off0000ceb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6C2 15820 bytes
SHA-256: d5e99370216be8b9494dec553e82e0ba6aba5ec57db9f3d0e40b4e9257a413fb