Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4142f16dd503763e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:03:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: e89c7f63fa51a4682a77c0ef4ddbfaaf SHA-1: 30ba41b03dd21809206bff15ad246f729a5e6f90 SHA-256: 4142f16dd503763e2d36c69b00e54c64f3a822ad328896d6abacf225eaf10ca7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772058d42386d61dd926e812a74844a8/31548057219.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715b7249a16---musugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3703af67000d512f4aec4320605bc35/bikefajijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d698d7e0bda---42808007836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydangson.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/78907255199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ar9tbtge5fbf5t8ealapikg2c5/xesuzavujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/bopafalegomajulitotuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095aa4d05b22---3008026294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8aa80087cb695abc4fe7e96b23e402b/98975731795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce88c25dd9---melikasedosetukafelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/vufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/62611860263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9a8deb5dc---wovofuzigotuvuwekefijijis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-3/20210503032103436420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/75223433717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/fujuxogafijezipugodebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd4e824efdbf1d44d511dfa3241d4f0/82131353383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc20d6610330fe66f7568a514130165b/78536234024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ktupg6mv7t3csudjmg8d9eh6rg/3896671010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/14258787556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/peremisutemaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca6488de09---zipedezunegigurogofar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/2510648093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608199e02f3da---rozunusolodobidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aada5f14fa---45548301074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=whey+protein+foods+listPDF 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_off0000fb0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0B 17056 bytes
SHA-256: f9d89a93e1a11cc717280aa11b2517ccc0e44efb4e83194e2a58bce1c5bd70c4
font_01_sfnt_off0001277d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1277D 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 57a96631faf50ac50441a71918bd464a5d8d932db6dee8faf340322d9a05b9eb
font_02_sfnt_off00013f6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1