Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 404b970cae55bcd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-16 19:19:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e468a98b69bdc98c055cacd9bc4cc8c3 SHA-1: 25cbd39edcdcd319f876ede7769d80faea0f0cc7 SHA-256: 404b970cae55bcd3abdfa33ed4528f2de390e40405204a32430bebd1a854b66f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which is a common technique for hosting malicious content or redirecting users to phishing sites. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of numerous external URIs and the compromised CMS upload links strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5a9e0ef402---witaviguvopoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da85ojulrhss560dpociam3mer/86104696282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a73d5f29c1b9a1540f587f6bb802e54/30107823808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/vakotipenujusojaderami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/kegubumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a0bimosc1o5sv6o15isp3ld4d/tuzimaxabizakiwotekud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/34976675545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/40996366733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/912459810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wekuritapik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d03b30a77e948257003ca2b01b5b6a1/ropabisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f4efa3db4---95455618647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/fuleleponobozeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/83617075983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/dutalowolelolaxitosekiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3918441f35a1e19a916f5b957b52a8e8/16472346588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/mububosulaziwidawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6478b8cf47798d58b1f54c0e18f144e9/42645250653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927c7a05446---pesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/20834373294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteyuri2.com/userfiles/file/39262428782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/15477701236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sea-cruise.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4052689015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+workout+for+hypertrophyPDF 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
    • 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_off0000e9b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CA 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 65684ea0289521a8756a9e568491682ccf42cf61a1a7100af58d0198c168aadb
font_02_sfnt_off00011918.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11918 16692 bytes
SHA-256: ecd7a3ed3fae7f8f99e71dbcbad77fc68a0e5d489d4f827dad183ff7b6b827ab