Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4422e4c7cea87072…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:23:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3d1bc44f858c74cfd2987e64cbe4373d SHA-1: 3a09776c814bacb8a38fc63cdf928e206b2649d6 SHA-256: 4422e4c7cea87072d5c6351dd9890b615be7230f48b81c8cb24bf05bd68563d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27fddm52dd3fl09sm95r0veeke/90785976043.pdf
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lgcqcvqp3989144fed2pop1ala/15890760320.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5ce058803---92315072006.pdf
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82457962255.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608452d149d37---xorivabajokipilonu.pdf
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/fimekajuwigit.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a50ace6efa2454c601fa82af4665f13/ruwamunupada.pdf
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d4f9467ae---sapozadufokomisakil.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb74b8715b003f17eefd96429c48379/18829579708.pdf
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab761ccfc8a---jidazusemuzebuluseve.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c0c78e17d---80294980674.pdf
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51de80cca25b266797d7b9979ae86c08/64525118539.pdf
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e5b3792ad9---pokufulizubabinofa.pdf
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65435ac3a7---55661997179.pdf
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0ce0bc071---roriwix.pdf
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/6939272213.pdf
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/mavutedidasiwobonobupiki.pdf
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jvhiaj8f3i74ftsfbnlh9rjjd/rowowe.pdf
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c126eb2b12---konejovapesewujowi.pdf
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/95720677744.pdf
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ede7c7d1ad8cec6dd70dc5737fe31ab/fujunurulefi.pdf
    • https://nenanhduong.vn/Upload/files/sarikowol.pdf
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/watalixoxofajoxogipu.pdf
    • http://screen.by/images/file/18367785281.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+atomic+mass+and+atomic+mass+number
    • 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_off0000ea41.bin
42fc1a22f105090a523c7b36e86edb61de5408d74c22dbf14e693987e9b28d2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA41 17596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000118b5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000130cc.bin
3de1faf8bca99279b5149c63966c03a501d81f369810b610f4c6851232a0ad69
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130CC 10920 bytes