Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4622299ec467c6e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-08-27 12:44:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5cf506fbb87f60eab9ec348294fb903f SHA-1: 38bd268c154f1fc35f9b520a471cefd4552fa5ca SHA-256: 4622299ec467c6e3386676daaa5cf81702a070a7510e65fa8a6c61a9e792bc1a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host malicious content or redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic for a download button lure suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9361d201d2e2218ee5745347f93f184/20404707568.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e06ae28f924e758596849dfce6c52d0/gavubisixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofagiani.eu/userfiles/files/waragiwuzoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/wekonagofunabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c5cb9e877---tosivafogisivefemijurutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b9a1215640a60fb8abd9f3113df1ee9/vejaxorep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21259323962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd04504d9b---97061980896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807b51b4851---42747340779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-13/20210613205514644353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/temugawebopinowivefose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/81805963677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e59957fb85d25a3490adf3eae682df8/duxexelazuseminu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f98fe91983d59c53f42b476cdb2a20e9/93214822486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/95500362855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e70955828ac03ce5e4f88760aa427bcf/vuzukefejelepomapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798a123508f---22704215547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amgaa.org/temp//files/95206867374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b861e443ffa---62081885622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jkrt4lkbvrsbrkhahciesssffv/60331549077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/19984838237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/bomokivuputavezovos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ans5680.preneed91.com/upload/files/bekupurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdsenfeng.com/data/files/jezajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=elf+letter+template+wordPDF 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_off0000d1fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1FC 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 991014f905f9cca080ef7a0cb8d36d2e83194f6302b9ff55afec4354607b0b41
font_01_sfnt_off0000e975.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE975 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 204eab93eb699dd909203781e21935978d12fff915c728ad466ba24a4cd95ee1
font_02_sfnt_off00011458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11458 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1