Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 401b718c696848a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:36:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6bcdd7562217c2243f72e347f3382e08 SHA-1: 247053f379b6467d594b3ec0866af905e48de280 SHA-256: 401b718c696848a40d89be489b5798af0401d94001dbc7c82f45348bcd8cf2da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to lure users to external resources.

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pronoun+antecedent+agreement+weekly+grammar+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7eb46de24e2b5dc4f0ec47bca372171/soxinegijoriji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1d17b06f4---fibesegokunegilaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a89eei0sos6pp376aopsf8aoe/nuniwenedujosemudimisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b14afdd71c98cffdec6c5ebdcdcafb2f/fasozunufejofitukoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skatrip.com/basefile/skatripcom/files/22027147923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b3faeecc1---lisebajivofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/33763397077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oq88t87ve0ec1je3ru7j22mlur/15798142054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocnam.xyz/images/files/32760886184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/65807427159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58b29a7023---nepowedufinovazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/27921677392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhighclassof60.com/clients/871169/File/93990145095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/99950246115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d18f25d60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d243bb5217a---57765660161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210717192938_ye65ys.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/8104_20210519165846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48f7433802---pavupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/25773199481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acc16e8ed6e64250ffdd40076c049aae/93626162341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612367bbcb7d6---52880368828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111a65b7823c---rofevuwudaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f06b41b7f53f4dbb0fd88ee4e190416/45629277765.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_off0000cc4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4E 18488 bytes
SHA-256: ca89faefd21c3015bf26fb4c147528aa1d9aad6e5ac5a718eef854ce652b7fa9
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11419 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 3e4df92e6d30c87b6c7986b6728bd2fea04826e88c32e952aac3163f5d76bfd4