Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4436c3593a502028…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-20 05:24:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 315fafd0e946d061beabd327e43f6076 SHA-1: 646ed7f41a7efbcfd376db9373e4cafe9a0fa3e1 SHA-256: 4436c3593a502028c1d625479e4d99c3b3cd37a9ebee0fc48c380d2687adfe7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests a broad attempt to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://jngf.cn/files/file/61820511188.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8915ba80bdb192b8921d3a7da49cdd28/29763666630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handinks.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/devakodotozodibivafuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq3j5vre6g1furn2fmf5kife81/kexun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79aa8hhe5h67dd73lp9f3h3im2/livenemasojivumakusizeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/kuzokebelomovutaxujefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n1j2kmild98fu9e95q91urvvm9/45649357231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/sibaduligum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960whs.com/clients/7/73/73384dfd0d582a2861cf356c55c3c578/File/pozoxewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edc95530fe62631af2fae436cc5e25a8/pibebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cb44989b3241837b66dc7010c15da31/lazinemar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgbcdsevjqpm0nmg618p533vm5/91669665456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cce1f7f3114---49622100284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/855i2efa7h5doicqg2ppljgd98/bokopakabixalodopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/74194769366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/65031432411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9210863abc10764433b4335031fbc3cb/47277403176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianmailbox.com/assets/images/userfiles/files/52928247505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/73446477670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/27278000676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5706280d53---53459577762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/nibureferutovufarugunutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/75818402565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c588ec419aa---54896830671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/lisagodusudelixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+trauma+focused+cbtPDF 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_off0000ea1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1A 10712 bytes
SHA-256: e681d8978adc65089c5a6137260e36c265265a45c468c339c1cc83cbc6e759fa
font_01_sfnt_off000102cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CF 17480 bytes
SHA-256: ad983b61fff0456e9bfe2e0b963fbc8d561036751e7ca938dbd96de205a61dcd
font_02_sfnt_off00013089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13089 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1