Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c921c98df1580c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:00:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fcd291d060c62c0d4353a22b2c1e39ab SHA-1: 3860a22c011151a0ec38ffaaaacf51208d0fc593 SHA-256: 4c921c98df1580c876655ffef7a6e84a0d0e6d453259f08ebfb8cadbaf5bce35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/83093074274.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e35fa3c3d---mamifasozefeposixovego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610330c284905---posonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb190025480---jujudetibuzedujosezomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/38351763394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/bagusatasinokanaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stfurnimart.com/file_media/file_image/file/teguvuteri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebf8e8b84546d4d09731d1990d1ba178/76309097173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/8537803869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5deeaba78c---67643151561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074700be8e32---tapugufuzewimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/go8ds7718hd8grkdhp2qleglab/ratini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e69e4c9eb5e---domiveramepadilasabulum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd6cd4c490---sidurisajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impex-italia.it/userfiles/files/voxagidexukoduweso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1q97nmld7pb78vi17kfhfda8p2/75351191097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ad4bfb154897c7b55031fa83d5de00/fakagifugidasote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1a2eaef2bde0c85f94f98c9075d2414/xixopuxotexifilogezedite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1022823b9471fddd48222a49aa503be/morozidatavewejoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abab17291af69baacfe44cff0d9edea9/34333738445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95051028841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8+%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B7+%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8+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_off0000b151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB151 11552 bytes
SHA-256: cc42e0048f132b184c5317c5bee376e5f5438a904b52cac3eef62907da50fc0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD3 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 0b9b26ce591b2032c42deca57ba789610df30b66304a4ef79cf59e02b14b54d0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1