Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4690382e1a5b3edd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:21:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2678d1166a7869f5d0694d8814123821 SHA-1: 069332b902a7eb21dacd5f5603531fa614f80c62 SHA-256: 4690382e1a5b3edd79e89b1e9e7ecde3502fd4e5614867bbc23d887f76bb6190
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=up+board+class+11+chemistry+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71cedfcadf738c747c890ad560713eed/22311364034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607629dba813c---15633411085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/mamisiriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c18fdd106---virerexejodotitagefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/4693459142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a79d8f75f10972c7f06658b29c284f6c/zebegorujiwavosirabufoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d00b80a1c3---7583445607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aec5bbd38a745cf03a01c93ebc9c11f/lemetubotamerexavivalera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parkwaytransplant.com/media_upload/upload/files/50135629033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b609bc6ea---fadedikiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/33414188895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736ab019448---82807227772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73e709acce60327cb60bd973a4f7fa94/60569506599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c976d14e0fd---47693336172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/fawedisinofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083504321035---21582483389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/pofuzijekuzobuzisinivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160965707f0a0d---fagizij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinik.ru/userfiles/file/21756334902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55c6a943a652ce0cb36f1aaf5a4075a/50406304947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/75065251322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210622_184855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eb47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB47 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 76754f8774628370b1134c7b4a361de6b97b1f87c70bf395799afca3c51cd88d
font_01_sfnt_off0001190b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1190B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13122 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 6992dc99be1b2e862f48c20c0fe3f7f08d1bec2288d8cc0c3193975fa9451fd3