Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4218e9366d557bd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 06:50:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3f9322f5ca77287dd9e8b7a329b80c0c SHA-1: 3ab7e37667f3aa44bd18f5026f0de6496b9d62c1 SHA-256: 4218e9366d557bd459afd4a6ca5334da0003ab1bfd0bb837f4d1482bc6be346d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised WordPress upload directories. The embedded URLs, such as http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81d8a10cd3---sazasaletiniwogajakeb.pdf, are likely used to host or redirect to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608408c73edda---gejulunidibuti.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nmu3t3268l7c8b28ucdd899j0/36108681644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/busuzazozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81d8a10cd3---sazasaletiniwogajakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e69df2701f---392332421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210602_DED452CA4B26178A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/nopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3063af83207aada2b6440248a7be231/semakubowonijitekifolekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/ninurobixakulotopemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://footballsod.com/images/ck-uploads/files/nawebasegagiguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d7076a65a0d9d8868991764341e93ba/guvibewewepazaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/32075904202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55379481967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210709070614923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vitecolte.shop/file/67692543988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///26921879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/jusopumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruwelivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myboydfamily.com/clients/7/7f/7f513a2250c12de81a70a6735749c289/File/93804881979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/robekebotosapazupumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/vemitukidani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbf2a1a822---40028952170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/lubadezed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covinahigh1980.com/clients/1/14/147ee80f0cf2e08ca1b5067d21485a43/File/fegekimugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/rapenapoxived.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=subway+surfers+game+for+pc+windows+7PDF 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_off0000f427.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF427 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C39 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 1b1f4b56af72292714ec1c195b97cd1279df4eb7910679aa09e44c14c181b983
font_02_sfnt_off00013a54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A54 11384 bytes
SHA-256: e30ad27c31e8c41bd2b385e08a6122253e3a22a3e4c0aa4421219d33daeffbfd