Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4129306790a02daa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-28 14:03:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 967799da4ff017c711442c718c529579 SHA-1: 792e4ecc5d98b9aa8195609060c09977958626bc SHA-256: 4129306790a02daa2693c3987c56bcffe5c83df732c049a6345da574813c8910
164 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. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing lure aspect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc3dr175au3egeijm596ebftr/savodefikadiwufo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/38019097070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/56083425521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/zogefatugusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cccb12ba3d5---fujumubunitijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094db3216990---tebewapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/susotilonudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b08dd4a4bce15da3b841577593662aa/tisiliwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756d6f6ab06---poxiwukebuleteli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wigogagupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/xepejuvun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burmesecatclub.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/add56590389da065810a01850039a947/75640481745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/zewejifuwidofuzamedawolim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/57855523550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c0472224f---54726405600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungototuanphat.com/img-tvdl/files/pexagebaxiguzikeroledapuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/76039415350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/vusata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081382f29bca---duboduzajejenafipiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a076a17001---59471199874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/30090447304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/77215362614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6e648e375---91592722402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3564410e63d84b3e063dd00b102b1b24/tefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=amazon+kindle+premium+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000ee5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5D 18460 bytes
SHA-256: 08578ccdb1e83f72521f33fd33f0f5438d656c48ced7a9e6c17c96ca20b76189
font_01_sfnt_off00011ed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136F0 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 4df02579873a7d8ba588b6309cd8d5e144da72c335979b72b0de95578d83ae7c