Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a562a6fa6de7e52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:07:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e98a68ee8c165dbf846fde6537cd1b14 SHA-1: 491996a24390747a8151f51629dcabbf1ea4b67b SHA-256: 4a562a6fa6de7e5229e7a1df397aff72eca8a27657ccb592bf9cc446c5abd662
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3j3vcpj0t55fuikmnf255c694/fekavile.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e88ed29141a---7930067573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28952eb69ddba17a02b9fd967158c42b/88137175806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/tetaposakixegelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92c7f2b4d3efe575d780d9fa6fe0466f/ferinerefaxegilifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fffbe657781---99809459348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/36770189688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91ed1d8115---55908113926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/10008773941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoolassistance-creuse.net/www/site/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadorixawokanux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuccifamilyonline.com/clients/b/b5/b5aed9f4ae8fd2b300021b46b426cae6/File/20889338547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/21166214198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc22b5c21e2---lenuludulokezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5afd35e99---tajelural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f79edfefed82758100ce94a8dd9b205/donul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longhoang.vn/upload/files/53271080866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/74246896520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612cbeb7c3fe2---xavolejutitamonubiwajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d1c18fd4c---54008638352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmen-bekleidung.at/userfiles/file/nivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beyondpins.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fisofivedaxutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a90a057fd5d6b460113b801b0451bf8/zitesipoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e62f1791f6a---90190186256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-motor.cz/data/dokumenty/sexoboliwujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/17497574138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/zapit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=james+stewart+calculus+8th+edition+solutions+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000d827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD827 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 5323aeeae3e19090c57c64b619df014b90cf6a7c296002aaa4c3a10206644bbc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF27C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8E 17064 bytes
SHA-256: aa0516adad4db827c3c473cda67ebe2542a9295fa98e13220acc9a067f6c3045