Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4192076b948bc7db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:12:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 976ca33c03fb0f2d15e963dfe2209bc9 SHA-1: 65fc690d4c72f0f3be6cbb3509430ea5bb081e34 SHA-256: 4192076b948bc7dbb165e6d30b1aa8de6456b9fbf232ee61cffa5697af1edb53
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pes+21+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t57aacen47vl73hbdumoapcjn/60072954704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed4f0aea83f---37927288238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entrackintl.com/uploads/969812587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/lonekekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609556c69ad20---botukomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascend.sut.ac.th/ce/2017/src/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavachhaiphong.com/upload/files/rusizuwugukogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seerupit.dk/assens/file/vizukali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/lovedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12568460780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e23455defa0626fd4cd1af9886e182/2776172750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb22e0853e4ed486af6402337233bf87/nutadanulebebumemati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilbertthomasreunion.com/clients/5/5f/5f56fe696be94dde62972871c8a9bc28/File/todobevesimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/memeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mn3hj27p0v6d47ogutapc61io6/likisotonameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bd1acbf29db8a2d9a09f546fe9ace89/65583015740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/webezesukovejomosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/039aeb7db81d2ea5825833c9c230fd63/14053906021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/62504216199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078823311b43---47646780956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/wosuvumakemifozudagimifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/12658147494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/kabotarupajabup.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_off0000f2f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0A 17296 bytes
SHA-256: 234c8ebaa9b26f0c6eec3da80d845fc55b2438c5696a63be9e380e86484078b2
font_02_sfnt_off000137b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137B1 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 7265b37b7ae16f17739bd7002f5fc30cb074292e5d7e1365614e370237e8762e