Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 407e9a7b5036ce50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:12:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 08e774526b5c01a84711890fc0451dd3 SHA-1: ec40af01f7b95b9768b264ebafd30ed6dcd90f23 SHA-256: 407e9a7b5036ce50c7889f03d4bf4e27b40bca630e84382a7d55ceeae02e6704
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple URLs hosted on potentially compromised WordPress sites. The primary IOC is the link to the compromised WordPress upload storage, which likely serves as a distribution point for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613581571488c---30654960625.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e39ac3e27eaf4732caa5d6898572f96/42211850492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletroluz-al.com/_IMG/img_internas/file/bipadodozoromugefomibegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heatandgas.com/EditorImages/file/vusemadupuwuguvolatepepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8843994186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangmailogistics.com/asset/site/files/nubabozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/fidivadojumizuwufetasoxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eae2dacc57---tetapudoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210905_164400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegastel.eu/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/53106059276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/sunazuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/15372569329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130eb64e5ccf---66137069391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/74353134606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sineadstone.com/userfiles/file/92700253847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gatewayhotelbangkok.com/upfile_hotel/files/lutidepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflbdq.com/uploads/file/121419463937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/77540026909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://binhchuachay.info/Images_upload/files/luzozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifulhairstore.com/upload/files/poguledumomokifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getwealthythisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nelakifidopikivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celesteandtorsten.wedding/images/file/memuwakavufuzikukan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/46013969707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=numbers+rachel+ward+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d12e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD12E 17600 bytes
SHA-256: 6a8422582074c4eebb9c12434f87f036c9347b8dced7d531bd4ad4c5ee921501
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF31 10996 bytes
SHA-256: a26c095824166d218a07e66862fae794c1deb45050257cb71cfa1ef5205735e2
font_02_sfnt_off00011866.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11866 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1