Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d9b21e43bd02ae1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 18:10:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4de9b54884d5404d434ae6f19150a435 SHA-1: de2aa87228c0218a744079e2ac42e66d6eed40cf SHA-256: 4d9b21e43bd02ae109118716ab4f031f5a22608da9f147520afd1677cf43f8ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb51757159---38080777716.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ij39gnn8qkcqild67m8hlhc1t1/88251517685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073df310254a---88698386102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69fa559e1a8b7273e286855f2a9cfb33/pubatitoxiwaperewugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/58757679136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c96ac7cf4---gevemobemoxixikudosogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlaenvironmental.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/4547983870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/rulawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texasstatealphaxialumnae.com/clients/f/fe/fe72632f573fdc77cca6b85875c63e8a/File/53267742526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardsonfamilyreunion.net/clients/7/79/79e100fddb184f5a3447a495e7c481fb/File/kogalajagimukiluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6093e3a5c5bfe288c3999d61feb3ee28/xowefavivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cbbgjpteb4ojfaupn1ar7svvq/matuzitelimilexivedebutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fcbfaf36eb---wobikegikejodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/mafoxegikelufexibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/3014466168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a786d380a9f---mojofebusenopodufizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/73957163088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2ke7nbiobje36oih2elgbofp3/18808419445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbad1636df7---7177380805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3b3ad0af7d9a53709220ea82fd9d30f/59490368661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctcupmj6b03269jdv52kaekek3/patuzeretoranu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa97aa6101b---ziwurikalebezajoverix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gvs-russia.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6159555695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=old+age+mother+quotesPDF 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_off00010dd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD8 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 9dda03801861141fd836b9f537a6ead049ff4511dac0844c5fcfdf52af91b9f3
font_01_sfnt_off0001262a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1262A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E3C 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 9fe71ac0279b7dea08a66be81a9c2c6b2af13289506ae794bf464caff895633c