Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a17bf217222cb90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-05-23 21:53:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b52aec3baaba3579d7bc6e356d7d1149 SHA-1: 67aa97c9ced3934396033c471cbda135614e8b35 SHA-256: 4a17bf217222cb903066d7a93c1ee744bbabbcbb1aeed1c218ca249f7cb43737
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the overall detection suggest a phishing or redirection attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607424f522400---subukovoku.pdf
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bc43e6a2c---fatatevikezolodasonal.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32a4abd470---11640382578.pdf
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5e98fc9d47aab36a68468f646559cda/30683782794.pdf
    • https://unserbiokorb.ch/userfiles/file/rilegemobokadigedaniv.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/76702149609.pdf
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/denime.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/wodifabel.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc36582830585b2e6fd98b95a76d932e/65200072365.pdf
    • https://mytopics.it/uploads/file/99180160579.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5955de7e1---dizajunuxa.pdf
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/1906058804.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f4b8ef1c3d---43643150330.pdf
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66879e0d24a644e703bc1fb21df0e86b/13211620577.pdf
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/325ccfc8a196e5df0fd93320411202b2/nobaruji.pdf
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2def5b5ab512184fcc65ec379959fde/masaluvobo.pdf
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822763a438a---dagofoginugeduluboletaje.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=adventure+time+huntress+wizard+x+finn
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d979.bin
b38770dbd8927bd37a914c5aff6bdd326e8590727355a1eba4699520162c6b85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD979 5144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eade.bin
35567e3e2a8ef000e05d07cdff70970cfffe15570176bb1f18935139df3df5e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADE 10564 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e8a.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E8A 4324 bytes