Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4489f1e71093388f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5fd461bbd15962bb1af89261e8081c74 SHA-1: 4d0223e973f06bc6aac4f515c722e6ac80250f7e SHA-256: 4489f1e71093388fddd77e114a1e4cc0790cccbeaa8861b97846ed32ac8ddff8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on WordPress sites with form plugins, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606f12f49e279---zopolekegigeke.pdf
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/tivuwewutimisadafuvivixe.pdf
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/nitodisovabudukivunel.pdf
    • http://beliangka.com/contents//files/pekel.pdf
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/xexegonalosusej.pdf
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/722p1j9392vuvimeimec2ukgv4/30405442845.pdf
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/zusobobarej.pdf
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/wadixudimeko.pdf
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4cc8a4c05cc7d13fc2cddc9adae57e6/nuxekugom.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd4f2738c1---45385769303.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805505d5635---tewoneremogimukesaguwarir.pdf
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/16666598826.pdf
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f2fd724bf950a6a3db57cb97676c901/18658888035.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9496980b0f5813ac097f94afccc217db/lojirowenonomej.pdf
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/jejaranojobodo.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b898c01c7a1---gatexe.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074afa463613---96424540835.pdf
    • http://gw73patriots.com/clients/1/1e/1ed986c9d410becccfd9995a8318e329/File/divefuxur.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7349fcfe3c2a7a6c6e4a97a00fa08ac/zemegojubivip.pdf
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e1656ceb3afb54595334cd803315b87/70591353457.pdf
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1340328c49bc8cb4b990414a4d9baa0/50700920616.pdf
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed0470459f---doziwotewixirubuxabituwak.pdf
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/42210414933.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cite+a+line+from+a+book
    • 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_off00010577.bin
591d8163b26a37c6c2bcfa07d5909fa8222cd16880287e3617af189e8cf1d276
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10577 18128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000134b3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014cca.bin
e2238f8a7b43f8e3a6b7f340d993a5b6b96607848abedaa7c101d9e7593e6048
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CCA 10636 bytes