Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4274d380215bf496…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-29 15:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 99ec2f2e58f2e95b0c602c1b911ea38b SHA-1: 563abfb2ed1be7dc51e72fb1c22878f446826e7c SHA-256: 4274d380215bf4963c485630d2de8989d8c52eb35caaac8bfe03cf84e97eff14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://irths.com/upload_files/files/3668975923.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b2f72c79c52d214ae4b9e8650f34f5/10871152436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/wutabexemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saammohaseb.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30836f300963aff370146bfd487ba309/dobesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c778b28f9d---kinojosodopowavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/bubusowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/vomejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99abf67808519037679b9e1379d6d79d/55423225331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/467ed0df4dcc743944f056a8b2f39225/65898238770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989fecae579---donobadumuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc261e9e2db7c7a22a05e6999d438b8c/mijesexogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47f4cc4a64650cd9a19f0e6130c3e58a/39717075288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/tosapilonibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofulltravel.com/userfiles/files/lukewepisagajotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l98304dofqiedlh8krmlhejo5a/35243375444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/manarawukaxusizewadojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb9a53d97e---jesokabekekuforanuzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sce.tw/uploads/files/6100b1bcc2bcc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/nadogotatexarifuxewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationalcoopadvisors.com/userfiles/files/6419793708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210511144842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/30105495225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e123931e10---ketajaxofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/pivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3bd5245d07---kemanifoxasimibavetijute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06b528e9a3---37603880512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+the+median+of+ungrouped+dataPDF 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_off0000ed77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED77 11076 bytes
SHA-256: e74949a99aaf666eb7170b76530fca1ba3325d59e7fe0ec288ec571671b1b0b4
font_01_sfnt_off000106d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE7 17808 bytes
SHA-256: be4bb0d355ff245ea31b353568559f65736d6912d1860b07de4ddf8fc898d031