Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 412c6bbb6f25ae29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:30:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fd38fdcf27ea328da2dff2466d2cc96c SHA-1: 90dd0b70f9e4934d209be345849ca5a95af840d2 SHA-256: 412c6bbb6f25ae29f4ecd3d50e734a61d1dfad03c940e8ca3dc3354e58511748
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or redirection campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867597bb228---55165127431.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/tujilaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/vuwifisixizovigepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b129b26f0bc---50436857563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4h7i4aka1722b3btmqjsfvmr0/vakobegamerufulosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/3054382902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/sugidiminifabukabaniparuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bedd845a922b0384fbdee2ed23d14d16/jidusuripadipobolip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/5519349667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrapanel-alegjobbfutes.hu/userfiles/file/90227876762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d45822727f51681664619a2380df3bf9/balitibividu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d70114e2b6---27712879985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/918565043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavio.su/files/file/99168455967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84e6dc486c---440333122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92575618645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609585f6d2538---kosawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/26511010263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e778000d76c---15768691428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midlandhigh79.com/clients/866549/File/rugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/vufovudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92cb96d527---jujogoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/81121743295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6672a757b337c3f616998f7fbc49128b/65624959823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=unblock+any+sitePDF 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_off0000fe6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6D 19144 bytes
SHA-256: 9d044061188c797edcedf079b540668e4be5f9de03eb60821293d30048bae273
font_01_sfnt_off00012fa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FA1 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 7cbd2b6da11d8b7a310ffb21e4bf1c29c03e7b0f9c458e5d5279b1c5c925a785
font_02_sfnt_off000147a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1