Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cfaa5cf5f1acaa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:08:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 646572f916a072146d4e110d5c1b5628 SHA-1: 298020a15817e5ea6a7533021f7c27eb87cca3b3 SHA-256: 4cfaa5cf5f1acaa9757d8620ab7f17ec505b636750c867a02d97543ebff20415
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common tactic of redirecting users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=stephen+krashen+language+acquisition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1a3caebb5---45950683040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/99288922574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126c53c20a66---wulajizowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9315fa2bae03fe3c83857c65481633/92841176901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf18132e0b1---94219064086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghaija.com/userfiles/file/bedavemigigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/918hrebncjm50090tri6niq3f4/77662789568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/pewekofemejimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/sokufazuzefuxenolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9324f75995---wevidowumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dc9e31d3f643a5581c6bec843223161/61718986919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/48762440251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/talesegilumotemofazivoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pindimana.in/uploads/file/zinopujanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/43516057940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57f27d5d1d6119fcb5f9e664c0006e8f/mitimojetimidulixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90528529768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/lozezoroxagefuxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grgct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19776518762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2df54a9813904d90bb84c428c74e6ec/76666969363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/44295210741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellilongoni.com/userfiles/files/vasuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f78cb6bb3---tavis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00014e97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E97 18004 bytes
SHA-256: 22f29eb9c32ad20c3fbae17533683d466a16dd236968127fd07cdb445700705f
font_01_sfnt_off00017de0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DE0 11312 bytes
SHA-256: b057da1f27f2e782d91b002de10ce5623c6cc6547fb4236d85b98e0fc262926b
font_02_sfnt_off000197de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x197DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1