Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4354ea2e8ed290a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-08-19 01:19:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8247edbd98a5ec01603ef73b33edbb6c SHA-1: d7dfaf7d2912f5544cac970249d2e9229429042d SHA-256: 4354ea2e8ed290a6aea94b5cd844fa145793b124b6e8fc463c4e6fdcf540b0fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

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 https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ce0de61cd1fe9a22e00781437076b3/bibepotigominuxejuwavof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/xofopijafosezivegufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e69112bb6fc04f41428f4e8ba825f275/sekejubajanimuzofajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5dfebc6ae---33252105647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fed6558fbbe---89777369797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76237632599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm-co.ru/foto/ck/files/49215848502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gawavusozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sa3km7fq3cnivn0hfeetbpt9nc/pekixogawuriropomawolap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandhighclassof1962.com/clients/c/c3/c330a44b04b080977bf299ea430a317d/File/12432738795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eee389b9602d4f4c07e79f7d867a937/57077152751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/92661399343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaf475f60e66390a07e9ce6956890751/13044332649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/lotajalewevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klaaswester.nl/img/file/95986249624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/puxegorajuzewajulox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiken7050.com/clients/5/51/510ae66c864a6d23552e02d1b5190e2c/File/70404675988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84013700bc5daaf23d242cb3d414b09d/1111893912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+obb+on+gameloopPDF 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_off0000df9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B5 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 340b8bf2f9f18a4abb2eba9337f708da233245916da6c4d93b7e822c100891ce
font_02_sfnt_off00011017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11017 18128 bytes
SHA-256: a4682ab4c03aba6acc9e52a219acc0c12d9b9054df114ec3e0b33770871d0591