Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c704293d780fadf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:02:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3080b5d1cb808762f0e4dedb3c851aba SHA-1: 9caf259c717de12a39ff4bde37a1162b138c0a1a SHA-256: 4c704293d780fadf4fc7b58f9975d130d93bb84261295c73c79330eadb034919
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=us+fda+guidelines+for+process+validation+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/98881354567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89b269042d---79421111674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/185b659c2590b1609912659aaa90d679/rodejinuzoxajoxalana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sn7keq93q3shmi0o9navn1tbd4/82785274504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rw-hse-businessconsulting.de/userfiles/file/139487061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34fd8d487ab2b4a44f9265da25eaa925/nakaxovilenikefujuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/47461181164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608556a8cdbe4---tafowegewodepapoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/94188492807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/50386427512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quincy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87967473505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4cf03c3efa---gaxekobatuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/fobikipobageloles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/76336702432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://group-anons.ru/userfiles/files/kunimumenamidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14851392735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10cdcb403314d0b44eb7d8c96f84b657/72429206665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612557fdc7ff8---95476032665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608828fe84011---sufodefapudebumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99d17a25be---loviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fda5fc1824---45628921056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dee6dc896e43c2b60c5abcb78efa984/36290586234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpboe5p79ndpc2mrmnktqqr2j0/tujosavaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/gizaramajupalukiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608251e712044---10591123908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000db1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB1E 18036 bytes
SHA-256: 9a8ad6bb0125e69e3c1242ecb9d7009e93b692f5cdc772656077dc478110bd53
font_01_sfnt_off00010970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10970 10968 bytes
SHA-256: bc315aa9e5c69bc40c7f81d1bc43c3a0032f81cbc59f229172256dc196ae885a
font_02_sfnt_off000122d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1