Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a54d4505735fbc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:00:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f7fb65dc6c4de455949d977e65f26f76 SHA-1: dcf8e5bd51b3b81de15dcf9d241ebc6ad7198514 SHA-256: 4a54d4505735fbc1c76d9e31f4ab5dde54bc6f5040fce7071e9589e49c51e969
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/rudigofavajas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768ce518ab9---gilafiwowudomojebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xlsferrosilicon.com/d/files/vopefajogumigobifas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supelinekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/17360285542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5629b0df25---90814180652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210622_0D7A89ABD50AAA42.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/49426421666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/26150969733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchterreni.it/userfiles/files/sizafef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe1ddbc2d8f1a4392513a54a3cb96043/nezezilesabewudajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93858485251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0c170c2de3---51537373733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramvetro.net/userfiles/file/83551390815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c3e8c21345---juwujipowenisiragofanaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dja96sdfg6egmea27ch07m2r42/4676171290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/8887014091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861cce59c4a---lebevikere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/19780910602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fdbc0dd262e6b52c80868cb8397be97/79212341377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/levizavoredi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/29127766567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c665b201e51---6649483487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=not+claimed+meaningPDF 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_off0000e4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0E 18464 bytes
SHA-256: ba5ab0155981c3ac09b788cd9675ecea3caee36d2c4870fcf0f51f6b38508a0b
font_02_sfnt_off00012d2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D2A 10424 bytes
SHA-256: ef543863620868ec1b791f0685707918b1956449c79bafca942a789882ec7e55