Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4661f689b48c1eff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:45:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 210850875ab338259f8c891e30b0b778 SHA-1: a73b4a04096ba4304834b15afc80ff02c96b2f0f SHA-256: 4661f689b48c1eff40f7ac0dbf28fad8561fb22c8bc6d12d2f43a1a473bf650e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://ridendo.cz/files/file/viwuduvodowe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347615887e8---gekasokazefemefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17ed01f5064368ae86a482af92695e77/wukewupivofulagizukuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/tifinoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/wujepevutefitarekopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf769b5ac23---faraxojavejemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafenicealcamo.it/userfiles/files/26423977003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideatity.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46215186215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108280452004544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd75e42840---notufumizizizoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba990313315---62193826032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/gupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cce44527f52070824e1359519536b12/51629508224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/93195346219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24adf462f5d32098f1624d9881f33306/xugamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86k4qu8jv7is5l3b1198qh35q3/56953196141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fdd3eecca---sidarosusamagorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c867fb77aa9---jupazasetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210720_DFCA8C6D18C5EB90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toduzobedewoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/35807982129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e166946fded---falirazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=2003+honda+foreman+service+manualPDF 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_off0000c3fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3FC 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 254f7f5b7fd2bcf95aa368e6a6a3765aa4af61e41e977838fd0bddbc423ec4ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF110 11128 bytes
SHA-256: ffc31e5ad03347d285153a6b2f1bd1ca2d493efa0b08f33477995159776331fa
font_02_sfnt_off00010ae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1