Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c117ea76c0f0ade…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-08-28 05:19:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2f6d0e8f83354ba816349d5469a861c9 SHA-1: 87c7926fc96d056ed514b4a675b294d963d91153 SHA-256: 4c117ea76c0f0ade037e1a6c91e66a3e116a576f32c2225291dddc51689200ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this, as they likely serve as landing pages or payload delivery points.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609661ecdda89---tigefoduramejumiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8be6f20b4---28049254153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d448adb4b72---zuwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/40124523707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd862da950f6c11d639c552e731eb527/63992421987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbe8c659532---60444819282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/54995298708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dahchen.tw/userfiles/file/tovewamujabovilarizifawap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c0c794894---44608882716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqtk8j3cavgik394loup4k0lb1/3310853941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607429839a9c1---zojobuwupojaxobono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domingo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tilozalobomilekaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a72676927ae049f345db1c3810a2e28b/sinavibogevasibanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/7816967332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/6165523683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/76133307808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/kilikifevera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20d2ea43d47d0171d6594c8d7d4e6718/pizurugenesadelorediredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grodgolf.com/clients/f/fd/fd83fa7079552abb47853a85229f74c1/File/21789679271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/18646602817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/bowevesune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86d1444013bf491355133629f61dc20d/zagofexetexewulumuzelemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/50411288095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocbond.org/userfiles/files/korasimezilukajolevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-8/20210508163004537641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com./file_fck/file/84496836298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5ec28aeae2176635709f9b7c34f4e46/watijanetepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+insert+multiple+page+pdf+into+wordPDF 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_off0000cb9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B1 16156 bytes
SHA-256: 8f66f2067ef88daa5efaa15e7a37edc36e30fd1f652794793387a949cc2874bc
font_02_sfnt_off00010d65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D65 11016 bytes
SHA-256: b7b17b31ed4857075f872d4565efcf0b4b85d9d88e6d78faf02e36c58812dc99