Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c202241ec6e7132…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 20:35:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 106af0c7274a6a83a6fde37ea3b13b35 SHA-1: 1ede76635bedcb04a3d6bdefd3eafeb7ab2e1dd7 SHA-256: 4c202241ec6e7132ebe5c36a5be0877400913499b7c52fe9bb4b6e2e025b7e0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malware or conduct phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6ehvaj4uavv4qn1k005rakmvj/vepolesefis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tf8lc91mq2am6s8i8mpc4h193s/71746380041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c58ad3a30e5251a07068eeb2a581270f/2800586180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fa2254ad8---xumosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/16963043816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/14751959063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/zalefipase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4539b8a68---wefuruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608966ceabe7e---85213787694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/sejodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://towa-aaa.jp/userfiles/file/49497499473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ae60c1599---20958249219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utaj6po3iqc72svjo4p4tb1e44/kavenivinanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68ed1a505f---lesokatezavojaboxuxomeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/jifox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/16707796624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b125497575---113552764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941d2dc9c82---39712314047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3quml9pjpmhvoo8djbhht7jvj7/37655686668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c1904177b---xiwafureja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petersonspann.com/clients/3/32/32c4b2f41fa698b5b938e848169c8dcb/File/xonegumidin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4dc9cf686---2252508310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/162421184354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f909cec1a6c3f50cf3bb63a065e3944f/43534199626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908860b32e2---kisovudigapotizakelovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab1e4eb9755---2754030791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608610a636f0e---25074312294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=is+a+diamond+a+compound+element+or+mixturePDF 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_off0000ef27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10739 16572 bytes
SHA-256: 6e4efb90a81e0afaec2f7bcbd2b42b47b4d4ee90c5b0f52b5d464afedde05057
font_02_sfnt_off00013222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13222 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 49f9631435aaefe0570a3e9900a373383508eec50f801d631af5a96e203c8e5b