Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e104883999f8e22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 12:05:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 28065bc0fbc696982720dc4ab399a7f7 SHA-1: ddd207eb610191977255a975578275a46dc02613 SHA-256: 4e104883999f8e22a4b71e6cbfa82891d0ccf0469ff0b3275e6b6cc4ca6d9e4a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfffeebaa03---buwedogo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be41a015cfd---duzamuxexukinafepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a580ce1e32---dilebapapapudigesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0040f1394a3f62a55a2f62dd62f28def/98169576078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/33408809535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idmef1jgsdbtq6lgo4b2rqpnc1/sofanifevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/dokov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609652beb3ee5---14977846303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/od71kv8j00rp6cj8rk7cof8cqu/bezesodepabalibepuwevalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/49271419372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606daee49749f---78152253735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2cf7b3cea---27335953554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ty-universe.com/image/files/20210601_035841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160832c157b3b4---13785374364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b587f4b7ab9af3e78820dc61f2ba228/86901425530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/61514588315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3754eb52c470aee75a700aafe62ad25/xavedagaveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887eb29c2380873cfbc5ff8f698efc7f/81066208154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/vubujadiganude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc5fbb3d5c514d15f2faa825d311bb14/18257607348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmstead.tw/farmstead/upload/files/nuwetitet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/kofuzivekebobutixodevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c423ff67926---13932489175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=answers+for+schoolPDF 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_off00010ff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF5 17956 bytes
SHA-256: 9a5d4b5ce4abd8c5e32b86961652300a80a174d37ec8c0add7c029e237905a8b
font_01_sfnt_off00013f28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001573f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1573F 10148 bytes
SHA-256: cc2e85d8a947c7d290a2658f686ecdce902d981a254628efd2377a2e5ade5018