Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c73e020b1e4979b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-08-31 19:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 5340ea9020cc19853ecf949b83a25010 SHA-1: aee5b6a2f6d2df2369bb908efd791a72e43f20dc SHA-256: 4c73e020b1e4979be08180a6f485555b3e45062836fbbc09623b9aa08c63d8db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

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://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea3b98dc8dffe0611ecec14233272e3c/25437792748.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a4695507295eb8e2d9520d35a18fe65/didaripulujatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76bcbdab4c0691f359710227b7907329/wakiresefopiboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudebeferolusakune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uktohabbarijamalta.com/files/file/davizomuwiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/tisaxuderenofujukatino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/tisosukuxakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9ma31ue8krh8ib8jivod4fujl/55210135253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sp-pir.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e9e09bb77a8e69057630413a523175/tabejafawizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/110ad3d64f3d1692d1b14f54b9a7c129/5117885065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/widek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/bipotujudowome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanxuantravel.com/upload/files/zadikobokopivufefawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845195cede---22286413054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/mowejudasatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/kejofalilodojuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/zurov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/85180404062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01ab0a427af60519b74cbfc8e1b0b23/jujugofezusijerimuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb3569b52d7---22208136532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb37a84f19f300f5a5b74697c31baf6/62734489292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf591e5c0df---55770031669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/44474758774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/jikovijivobiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ray-king67reunion.com/clients/41562/File/ravigunuzena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+unfollow+everyone+on+instagram+at+oncePDF 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_off0000da26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA26 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 1676e0dd13204f5e8d4cacb878c0b8af436a40f34216ac355793dc63fb921d59
font_01_sfnt_off0001099e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1099E 11076 bytes
SHA-256: a4debec6b8c6d74e8177ab8f7f895764d1f393d14158ce0206d8b3a05a82f585
font_02_sfnt_off00012395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12395 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1