Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4239343588c3016f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-30 10:55:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c7d63eaf201e0b3539cd851458e08181 SHA-1: 0a87847a17c2a1a15977a8a925266fcede558969 SHA-256: 4239343588c3016fcc73ce0945e12c70cba19bc137dbe570bb238bf19e0f7d64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URL distribution and the detection results point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/68607970966.pdf
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607acfd155db2---vodirekafavajevinaga.pdf
    • http://alwaditrading.com/userfiles/files/86968969974.pdf
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/jefuxufoj.pdf
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/34748768413.pdf
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/poponuvolisafu.pdf
    • http://gphs100.com/clients/e/e3/e3ed30f4e85b1ff1e74f61348c82e8eb/File/fepizegebixuze.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ja05rckc149s74k6a0mpajkg/91688281357.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/larunizemitigazofipukutuw.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd109295e44b8b8113be96157947af2/pogexepasiseba.pdf
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/46002181946.pdf
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/85463736288.pdf
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653c7ce5e9e09c765c9125e06b12908e/68166250029.pdf
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f229903ed920a2e6b56c48ea3664d096/50088108803.pdf
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/xukemekunosatumokake.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161005a63cfbb8---26761686917.pdf
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8069ad0d19---wiziririzefokifokovixake.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mgi30s972upv49ldo79sqrqpc/wirosuninirevokatevalidab.pdf
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/49586560870.pdf
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c74fa01b44---sinuzefekewiwodisupaforu.pdf
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdcee2422e---ruturegir.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57c059e8da---zelure.pdf
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/pexurapiragezin.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=cobra+king+f6+driver+specs
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f084.bin
b200a31decf01f1ff23722efc416eadaab26b101e89ce4f7493292e1fb8fa2b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF084 11148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a5e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A5E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012270.bin
a6d64cf92bc820e71733d228b21350c4c44648697557f9c60ac1bc831a90c5f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12270 17900 bytes