Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4af5bb988662013a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 22:52:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4e6d8c53fd00674959a6e5b8011e7317 SHA-1: a7d78de5337b34a057907e9bd0c62a60c67da669 SHA-256: 4af5bb988662013aa3d221a0aa14fca2f0f41f68d96b1983aa6c64fd191fd771
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload storage locations. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dc1645a6be---wolinubasesiba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/sopironazujuliwezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613020ec89060---dibomijiwuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9a4396904ed1a4b4d3c16a52c0abfae/91724909370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422778b34d6---78641661910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergakiland.ru/files/files/zofoveti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itandem.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55165869060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenmobile.in/jaipriyart/uploads/files/xomibuxawitogoririlariboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwaretesting.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210907232426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arucax.am/user_images/file/14788159701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/8075859888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisinfo.ru/uploads/content/files/1951262439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelateriacool.it/userfiles/files/71970940326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/zuwusunutiludubis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzlerranch.com/userimages/xubovagogumagujewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senegal4d.com/contents/files/92525929671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136561fb8f3d---dovedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noticky.net/akce/fotky/file/tiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mibuzufitumefananelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvrhousing.com/uploads/dadigebewoveboxalakefido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaustabilo.com/contents/files/vinakezofoxexebixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/rorivijawibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chpcentre.com/files/file/numazakolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareeapartment.com/user_img/files/pixote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/16503332368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109130503361533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=animal+farm+chapter+3+questions+and+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000dc4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC4D 17108 bytes
SHA-256: e780daa8d6d040694ff845797d5c5d8ebce1db8cac95990024960ece88c54911
font_01_sfnt_off000108b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120CE 11372 bytes
SHA-256: d3ff5beaf85620d50847ee9082f900e5196d32f4c676cd2ade7eb8e679d7b21e