Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ded824e489581d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:47:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 26d0c3c10558946d2948dc0f146d033e SHA-1: 398e19df84b8ded467c23899e5447cfdb664fd6c SHA-256: 4ded824e489581d7cc74aceef6113741552667c412dd7c18b42a39ab5bd587a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873297430d2---xipopud.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58jn8bhp3q33vc53dgvs7ae2a2/92412205558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menokatea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/razosidesoxesiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/rewapefidimujojoviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/54803640897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f183c8d90f---zixibopizijupexaratowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.org/files/files/87389454726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/12808820106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161050f2cd83a5---257025664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gima.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99061907874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufo7eibnjc72og5kss6evctf6n/36772335552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesart.com/uploadfile/file///2021052304102388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/38805683236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/kepabovowapel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075966c38a40---68956460847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/banig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/97633815877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picassogift.com/Uploadfiles/files/63030048795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.vn/uploads/images/files/56745694511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/22227049780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crescentcarpets.com/userfiles/file/gomutibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cb818e1b6---57634106950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=booting+process+notes+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_off0000ec10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC10 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 08218b44df8127d426f589ccdae9cb2f4185d93b123073275e7df6b105cc7c93
font_01_sfnt_off0001045a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1045A 18160 bytes
SHA-256: e31e68d897950e2124fbcf4710c8de0679efa9cf1d9bebae2fac4d79b7d4187a
font_02_sfnt_off000133e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1