Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cbf91e83e394c43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:09:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bf1a20e555ff6f1bc48141ece872af4d SHA-1: 25e6327970985ccabf08aa084e7096d958ffbd4a SHA-256: 4cbf91e83e394c438f95de6de5540267acfbc3af72a9a45bd32899cef9e37c6a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within formcraft plugin upload directories. This pattern is indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination and potentially distribute malware or lead users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd8561225e---20221257086.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e9b98200d---piguwezaxemozufupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/8333948865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071dae717219---30470690853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/17176806192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff22109b519---68196884466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161087f8c307ae---tonumefumekorimaresimimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dahchen.tw/userfiles/file/tejasefojofepabutujomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9dadbadd11---73898711291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/67556673952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/zarofasesemavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkins1983.com/clients/861771/File/ruzumikabani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/67089459055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b38n5u8gs6684rmljveki1c81/6084383912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbkh9hmuiif91pjsds1bqe312i/pokopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e621c9987d6---vuruneweritibaguvog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/namixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjxbw.cn/userfiles/file/fomukuvovomexosevafixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/39454899773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161238a2abd16d---segem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/palaterigedexoludanikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160893d0eb0c6f---71351994147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ao77il06kkv1g8jbghma45f74/53798014531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/kukatosegawejekiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/poxusedipomekoramuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=sams+teach+yourself+c%2B%2B+in+21+days+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off000139b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000151c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151C5 19312 bytes
SHA-256: c219e5ed46a2d830dae153471e6661960b351bd72ff37f4fc617f7a34f36a740
font_02_sfnt_off000184be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x184BE 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9d0ff55d1010fa372df896bf2509e49533f16fdf3aac27f3af26e4c7f5e11f