Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4520c2fe87ea8873…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-07-29 20:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 55dcc421f6694eb82ba55a67d10a2a40 SHA-1: 0ac486c73b36808d8e8bff320a32fa228ff76bf2 SHA-256: 4520c2fe87ea88730c4a8b98883a10f875e728f90606312a47c129a7fcd5e2fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. The document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077737e971b8---35455290901.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net//ckfinder/userfiles/files/bobezosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakaryakasaplarodasi.org/userfiles/file/sisogolafexerezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca5a66e872e---96378697773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/17072372619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/51933043544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/paviwogavukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e02177c8361---96885263168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788f355bf8a---zurulitokalokanovikemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murten-hotel.ch/userfiles/files/tugifuran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c8a0f15e6---biwedenunosavipadibumuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/55466253875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f48514f79c---muxirokuwezaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f47fe5ca34a34043c8ed5cfa1a4f61/4787499382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/8664153925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/18943908598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/mawudutosafomoxipikeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/47784353573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupugotoriwoxafufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/gutufubipizisufidomedufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607975eca71a9---40646346795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsmsaldature.it/userfiles/files/10786598048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olivier-frey.ch/user/web/file/jepotivudanejuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6b54808f7---90831980527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=where+does+telegram+save+videosPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f94d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF94D 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3d63f173342003c62a86c726d4d5a85e7f52d44cf06618766a4fa08a0866bf
font_01_sfnt_off00010e7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E7C 17220 bytes
SHA-256: 789dec90ca3e77b76303279791cddcc8a03a549c0afb9b723936e9399242ff0c
font_02_sfnt_off00013b3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15353 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 33611f8d5ee5b73eb4325863b5a9ead7270477c59c0acc26a630462b8a421d52