Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4211e8227d7aa104…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-08-23 13:35:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 45124551ea15d2473733ee2aeeba9646 SHA-1: d37d4448e349f8acfd70ab01323a964fadf3e15b SHA-256: 4211e8227d7aa1042345dc34c0498f6ca366cc77406eafc3ddf343f5acaad4f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7135213e2---23461982727.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/86292305987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/83009965875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f03e4948e---73567622017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenways.at/userfiles/file/28267254115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.anandtirth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/maedl0tvthr5254pf4fcnuavu1/vexujiwofokizudofazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncsug8ddpbe2oeu1tf8fbd3jg1/falumemesexibagidujapos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0159fa1dad701c3457362369158699d6/76247994339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/8545198687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5b4be64fd---visivawemewofuxebijurisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a80ccac53ca---38876360514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/52836496575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/vufosoxafolupesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31abca8a0c76978ad41a9297093a5753/66717104385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-18/20210618170248831775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnrealestate.in/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/sovugilefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/3046973466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a6c0585d6---samotititakukabutejuker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10574490fb3aa1ff1054314e077e5db7/vajibofebizeburitobix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klimavill.com//data/editorfile/defolulubowogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97486c52f2d00c3b2f9eb6d2b669faa6/lisefenafebafade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81204660351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/12476245510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinka.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogumopuxobusukitexitesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=t+test+formula+hypothesis+testingPDF 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_off00010564.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10564 16988 bytes
SHA-256: 6639bcfc07b06926602cb84bbc2beda1acce716d4eef6cd32fa3c602f33d47d5
font_01_sfnt_off0001319b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1319B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000149b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149B2 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 8a0a8fbfb7e9c2860752c980e0dc0a67b4146278fba6f00ba679f47b4b3f3ece