Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4108711c5317919d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-06 10:36:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d20963f96988c4787465e46e260d4f05 SHA-1: e076fdf02be868b4f7dd13eef99c3a8c7b85635a SHA-256: 4108711c5317919db66a7fd8cf1f8d760fe4ae4e3c2e7e7fc90eb04ce8847fca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection suggest it is designed to deliver a malicious payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/bovijeboxusutejinemup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c581d70a71a---90966006063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eitmedu.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xinakafapemurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff5395e4d914a027529733218a89ca3/zokidolalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cba4d402cef2bf81348065b8e5f9eef/luworolififowewojetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac4e49cb594---60613424205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097667b382dd---navamukape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-uchebnici.com/img/file/10922393572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcmoving4cure.com/clients/a/a2/a295acc0500fd37d831de80ba00a7552/File/98971233722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/51248413766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://media-production.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35451625108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730284cef9a---96298339042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b4d910f51---busuvidotomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514373a83e2f0d4ec78116964a1afd13/leribiludotepovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c46d093edba40066c3343db88ab2d27/siziwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c97a1aa1464---semejijuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/38319788463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c570881fc40---24555615293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amadesafar.ir/basefile/amadesafarir/files/64528493084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/99683883533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/avufiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fdfa56e27011ea1b263c25ae91b0186/24893416002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/pixurugoxasoxomuvawuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+la+antropologia+filosofica+martha+bardaroPDF 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_off0000ed6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10581 11364 bytes
SHA-256: d05a871758b998dce0da1ab38c3ccb0b435ff3df0ac2ed982b2c90055a119a77
font_02_sfnt_off00011fbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBD 18452 bytes
SHA-256: 4d940bea2d5b6e0df8e02327da7a78bb54f8c39ef3d6feb88dc85012bdfd9386