Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4173582983a00880…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-22 17:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 01c53aa9bbdf833dfa502858809f2420 SHA-1: 52da97a6ee7e55adbcc93ba41afcd745faa38a02 SHA-256: 4173582983a008800d3290d6e6cc6e187a04be50ba49b307a85b0321d5dd6167
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, likely serving as a lure for users to download a malicious application. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, potentially exploiting them via a social engineering pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=castle+crush+app+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a908f4d56d---40866157386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/puzuvidetekuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/88390391964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sayarbobinaj.com/file/27787444844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergiomauri.com/images/file/31608909490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fa41b5d6f---12651315439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meubelenindex.nl/images/uploads/58686355125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gepojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d261e676a2---76303952243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kitpaisal.com/mypicture/file/14671798395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18884566051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/6675228916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rallyteamwalraven.nl/file/87089316429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portakalweb.net/home/portakal/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fanofilutotubufokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talentfuturesservices.com/sharpinstitute/images/files/vituvufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99183435194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gad-elhak.com/userfiles/file/fafovonalumuvinenaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/42742447430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty6600.com/userfiles/file/ranojubibewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a43064aa905313604dd9c96445d0b9/8654245488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gloteckr.com/upload/editor/file/70656232866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truckersplantparts.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48592707909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/32206971641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicesys.com/userfiles/46201099943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1630757482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/lololonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000de38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE38 17972 bytes
SHA-256: 6a8462d3aaf44f6f6d56a62d6ee15110f232a420763be1f7c5030e4834428856
font_01_sfnt_off00010d3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12555 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 6b7143ac953e2f87a2cecba17607ede4be5436c8bfbaaa5c91ff2a54ffe3147b