Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dfd4d47a9b9e702…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-06-23 19:33:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 9f9c6a024e4b42a79918360ca4eb658d SHA-1: 25ce4aef208080c80ba68d68680d4022eb7ac63c SHA-256: 4dfd4d47a9b9e702cab547dc063a8dea2ced97f89d2d9317a57070c9b18a7394
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it's designed for phishing. It uses a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites to distribute malicious files, masquerading as a game trainer. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/162251145352.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8smttc4j88b9dh9nju8sbg28h/30446235939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608140ad07e19---99029251502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l3lq0o4tamnn0j4uib5uieh47i/18615458057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/41340204572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160744a8237d48---6764283495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/65613909602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071de73aef37---73530333710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a484456e37---63357640022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ck39dcgrs1grrbq7ul0pgte9m5/figuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/xosozovamulowiposalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/93692139596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d17f27df4c---posak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/sotatozavekevanozisukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b129f1acd403814855849fa9eb8b75b1/vapegupasufowumuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3b071f428---xeregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=far+cry+3+trainer+pcPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16E 4940 bytes
SHA-256: fa5eedabed31757916596c9c0329b06f924564ac90a95992e9024ff78a0b0925
font_01_sfnt_off0001025e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025E 11764 bytes
SHA-256: 4223ee813f29e64fc918813cb635f5d4be69b7c8ef883dac5ff95a320edeeb73