Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 404596bd53b67d97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-05-28 00:42:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 515bf69bb795f91dd8c18558b3a28484 SHA-1: 9bd7edf86b25a313a22ea4bbf86df250277c71c4 SHA-256: 404596bd53b67d9746764eec2d356dc56bbb920f2b07a53f464bcde49fdab2cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body's content is garbled, but the presence of 'Komik sozler video indir' and the URL structure indicate a potential lure for users seeking content, leading them to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/685b4d81f9cd773a0b022fb37602496e/nitikinesowibipiparolo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c354e90989---firomufopadogiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0637abbf4---45951908358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26cf3bc109cbae4f156edd69315af269/6029137344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0716b5420---86339429263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da14ef1797---siduzaxuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f421deb06d5cac097ef708dd87fe4a2/7373971750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/ledowutagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7417a4d7eab77fd267fb59335cb0d12/vowaxatilidufuzegerali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/67556727293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/54912687916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4667a4a39a3694a1073153ae7abda21/feletirezagawotajafupatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohlucvudhl1pvctqf939st79jm/goxoxiredo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afa5bd1601---95119132810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=komik+s%25C3%25B6zler+video+indirPDF 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD300 6588 bytes
SHA-256: b3260a8b27c40a1c9408c40b3dcfb9ec9ded560232013cbc1ca8de37ebb5a831
font_01_sfnt_off0000e37a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE37A 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 3915933df3a05b862306dced8d44bd53f75815ab12211ab83b21b6ea8ab917af
font_02_sfnt_off0000f450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF450 4016 bytes
SHA-256: e251bbf6b11514d65f5982114792b6b9f1aefe83f04085f6040d058a866471e9
font_03_sfnt_off000103a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A4 11908 bytes
SHA-256: e5424a76b57fcd2bf7f6fd4f244b5dcdb2e6e8857c6724048742260a57d0fbba
font_04_sfnt_off00012970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12970 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 5d21d597c920bca8b21308739574a31e0dba8697b83477bdc9d42744658d1470