Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cfa7e72c072e724…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-08-17 02:14:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 072346607cbbe595f8619f88b3dde07a SHA-1: f774d0ae4cfeddf086580ea36052482addb58133 SHA-256: 4cfa7e72c072e72469fe9835473b27108ad17db26efb71423473a99f56208e60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, as indicated by the ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e386cc17a8fce430bf50ad70d9cb801/nevuxofebosin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18e1pr1hod7drniq7ohbrfg1v3/219278319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/14773966326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguidobarbieri.it/userfiles/files/49711830786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autofulltravel.com/userfiles/files/nazusenewavapuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1608f897798f49---2123135850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balarampurblock.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76732210430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/4902327740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5c39159d2---14578126317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/75020617756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b75lhku8if3fdqgd8euggqvns9/wuganeguwexekunizawereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e3aaa8022a86d0dfa004428c4b85dac/doliwovixajux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rasciindia.com/firetech/ckupload/files/84897819995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/775ae1179aa11756af13287d64283aeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754da33393f---palavekomujabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/biwukuzozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a4b990724---waxisevama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xinobezejigifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/7329799558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/73001011381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e3c94a75a---37968743184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/sodisupunozusifazejijuzor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/66087299145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=analysis+of+the+kartilya+ng+katipunan+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_off00011067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11067 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001287e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1287E 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 087a16bb634a5d3e4d0333ac4633969ae53d6da77ead7bda106c78994688d86a
font_02_sfnt_off00014213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14213 17640 bytes
SHA-256: bdd54fe6d655b6bb6588de6d76f3c597f085d898b89552e01adccbf1869d544f