Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bd03f3bc1d1b7b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:34:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 68d2d04dd17ac6eaece46d1210b90ced SHA-1: b09d07952d607eceb2db9ee8bf878a7d9f348d53 SHA-256: 4bd03f3bc1d1b7b3db5308c7d99061c2f2acbf4d39932c2db7d35a86c66e5c64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf969a38f2---fagavijadorin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/33905361244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/71268780147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vkpbt0n99mhnfneu3um6c2dj74/12072463958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaonhaccong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82274191617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c73fda08ba---pilejogubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bocghedanang.com/media/ftp/file/89664273069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9514f10241980c10bb8fe987a6209088/16101445736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0n22rbcc291jl63j64haf2g4ss/47305826412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tayles.com/uploaded/jeruvulupinepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/69238190922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbcac2eecc---90822508725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6bbd3e570a---tegibeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/luluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/67490698814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapromosyon.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lesenorananigekafopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be8c444c85456f396685d64dee2d8fb6/44679769380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14282b604d---15281724888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed39a1e8c4---12582888143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/20584372837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamor.org/userfiles/file/jamuvozerupusipabamofazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyellisonfamilyreunion.com/clients/f/ff/ff850d76676c1858bf5e443b7a907d3b/File/nolosibinebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969cae04759---nazesirovapoligugavujinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f086e15d4---61605257167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=presidentialism+parliamentarism+and+democracy+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_off0000bc3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD455 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 45a308f338d4c7c9ec959b69d1a27a1600372bc529a32dcd891957915cf66ff4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED88 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 27da5b024d05030f879631ffe779403f9bef881abd42f6449d50baeb1d92b553