Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4253c9928bdac006…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-23 19:29:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3d7758651e67f3a179f40a1370d89707 SHA-1: b43548566f19c106ce04e562c91406d947d42763 SHA-256: 4253c9928bdac006706849de09b6d584a5ac1706e055511e231ddfd1c25a034e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

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 https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748f9984824---tamoviwetor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/dewekutawawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/151p6vuhmp777hgj9sg2ip3c05/sovatitajepuwararepovozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/78488719066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/bolimogudolabuxolavoziden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847c9c8a2d6---93039232669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/jebosizutojixuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cc7c60f39---womesetibekezizunaxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/74812798014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtutoring.com/clients/865321/File/sagutetadakiretetaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reguitti-engineering.it/userfiles/files/3145538327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gwardiajuvenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/16062314271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0876b9a968---23921725362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e56e0a49e---71193081444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shtr2c75uo69b26ctcshr5iiar/48376115846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d10b4fa00---51300031931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walterchiropracticclinic.com/home/walter/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabufalifujomabujupudolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleniridicu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafumufidowoviju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9631175b7f5b1105d1588960a33012d3/32998482651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/92791454413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/jisokerevozapitemefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/99829726909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef22c043179b00db85d74e7fd62eac44/majedumezofakuduxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.com/files/files/66452748200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/27452623725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210608220331_420466194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/83990388055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riversedgefm.com/files/file/11636456172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=temas+selectos+de+biologia+2+editorial+patriaPDF 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_off00010834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10834 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001204b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204B 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 0b917e2926da5078f95d7fe1709f2dd6c314c2ca4554cbd5ea44747397f0249d
font_02_sfnt_off00013964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13964 17960 bytes
SHA-256: 16f643ee9bed942d80f303382089c7c0d480c80114c9595040dbf089279c3f00