Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cefcdad893d0425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:57:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 999ec11c5ce53a98d29dcbc9708b71e8 SHA-1: e956aa62dfa580112982fb2c9feed7f0b315e999 SHA-256: 4cefcdad893d0425d73561846d86c7f46830108f414698f31cf579efd108c0d0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads, suggesting a tactic to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec11cba3c7120a04d26315d3f9ba11e/17923233548.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/almc0hgeh4ea1r33t97pd518t0/pimulenuzafunewufozoxazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1dd39132c---77094426194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/tuwupuxufineweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c131667e5f5---wewububo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d03a07ecfe2624ce60d7d4f72c65c0a/83374634550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents//files/wuzutubifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607517f310c19---sazexazejuwojobetemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowanfamilyreunion.com/clients/28915/File/dodonatiwoluxaturemoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608735438efe9---76540906908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f050e4e17f---bajijogawufagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bec216493e---xedoxaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordan.si/dokumenti/file/69128312943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d56e93f908---93353523790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/fajemegafuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/97799936951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b8dd2e121---10971924531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983253b085a---kevakesoxijefulutawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c930b7b6ef26e1290cb2a89ba9ec72d/45644410061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/66905142805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/tibezovinumadogobamevumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lji7dona90li47dm3t94d24k2/25505608775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=editable+blank+drivers+license+templatePDF 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_off0000ea9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9F 10836 bytes
SHA-256: bfb1618e3bbccfd01a28f85a6bc5777454f21f4bd2052822acf889c0471a56af
font_01_sfnt_off00010366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10366 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B78 16824 bytes
SHA-256: 7038532111ecea36bd458e50b319d48491a19da411a510b5f82abbbf6be436c4