Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dc9805d3a88132b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-08-15 02:03:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: b448862f3599ee0c4cd0f549c3de3439 SHA-1: 315e14df7ada881f1295a31a557e26eb2d2a50ab SHA-256: 4dc9805d3a88132be366a84b5aa9641152795ea996108332c6c341408094d04f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afedc35cdd1---nabugufukinovufalokamil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd4d89439f8a76bd3abc0c57c28cacb/96177383755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/tewanuvulefadiguzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/tunelonixinuzasofefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokisuper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839aa8a1e94---87213362330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/71475551661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/66389114893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/files/jazotituduvaxufinanexulev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f602d7ebc---14783791901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083cf2430b2b---dazavemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/wenasoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/zulabetozinevogazitegowax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837f093fc61---mozafeduditobufijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahkay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39569471816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingtheturngolf.com/clients/9/92/925d9bae4ecf380f28dbe0e1390c16eb/File/lawunoramomima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilni-kadernictvi.cz/files/file/36831662303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5772dce06---32781764804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7cec0884244b815355e2537b83fbad2/lerutugopunefakalilowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/rabafodubutarojunefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794fccecf9b---76015109579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/fonofalafomulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f085bcd2738---76110274982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3d2b81420---16096351664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f32fc5ba07d98f0b8a2d671b1ef5f3b/kugituzumazojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=bcs+power+plan+book+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_off0000fb12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB12 10792 bytes
SHA-256: a02a9a218ea929150409a840bfa11131bdd80b884a54087156b66ba694022d97
font_01_sfnt_off000113e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E6 18384 bytes
SHA-256: a7bb18b58f29cf1f4c5fc86f3259fd00f348385f2455e6ac7972d6eccb6cb56a
font_02_sfnt_off000143a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1