Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4864418262d7b5e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 01:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7eb175264e5b69e81e0581bb4a596796 SHA-1: 9962bb0fb6fe85e7660ba1264bb1c77067ea74fb SHA-256: 4864418262d7b5e13542c39500430d36af0c7cc36b1170bde3bb2f58dbf29eaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the structure of the links suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for user credentials.

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 http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc2dbde0ffe---61873914700.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210523130856_59126365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmjc2ec00p3fpgcr1pfk72duvf/tipikaporil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ece4237c550717421c3430808356d854/zaxumajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098af30d0417---gizupaxepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe9g3d8pdnh7ipdn1sfaujdmu/lumadabav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hdjubbt54h7c6ukj34b3t7moi/mosezifatogulefoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1dbd782a8---16890974310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/fiwepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents//files/nuwomop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/11934060537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092690d00c53---goxulopupebogaxegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/86710766011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/lopodoroziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff5ebbf8b9---58191367154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e15658d7ff97a562da4596ad5caa62de/55849497994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b9f057d7e---54334062452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1697d0636ce488065f62d4dfe318cf1/fovedixuferonomotomarikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/67141967268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c126128ea25---likoxuzixexemiwisamelelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087affccd324---21190357089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/156db1b6e1bb49329a5ebf8262b45688/77772098689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1d9a628184---76353874639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/34168524292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=one+tailed+hypothesisPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fab523907fae1dac631bf858ebe48b31/58314240262.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_off0000f1b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B5 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 4005d97b49b96383b5e1b06974024f0fc559c31b89d0bf398882c2efe632f96e
font_01_sfnt_off000109a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A7 18228 bytes
SHA-256: 7d8efe515a2c0b95752d1359c33d898b0f6b14773294dc0af71583cff3b0a12e
font_02_sfnt_off000139d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1