Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e3838b690eb8349…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 15:36:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 223731c9cf5cd2c9a3387874c9b316bb SHA-1: 9019ceb92ecb733ddba059e0923525208b548b7c SHA-256: 4e3838b690eb83491dc1ff0ca9669002f6f9b5e89f0e45aa219c0f82e3e8d135
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites. The ML classifier output of 0.995980 further supports the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5bb785c1a---mofenu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/xupowetinituriliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/fikuwuriladariguwarejagot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e465387372db5e9045214c1a7c5f8b/susogiwewonali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/lijalidamonopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetcarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/gewulusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/2376768769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/gowidabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d605910a4---71169696667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efb73fe5a3c02a9418a4572c84c79f18/wozuxumixutupejuzojupuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e45831238---20631945745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f5f7a83e3b42e909ae498568b3e8d21/tomutig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-inmobiliaria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vogetanudasokula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/4112213763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82qjb64sjjo5cj0du5ei1pcgp3/peludunexitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup2.com/contents//files/ruzafowumobetorevizirelop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziva-muzika.cz/files/file/68609371831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/49040783937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calebdobe.com/clients/875189/File/lupodujadumomimavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/51431188357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/kuzanes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02ec73fe87---86741453763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9l866oovnvj1budngrtotfmirc/96851928045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=a+way+in+which+synonymPDF 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_off0000e368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE368 10300 bytes
SHA-256: fadd1da292652fbf946ba23d06dcf798b8c224428d24a7dc81c513144138ce99
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA76 17168 bytes
SHA-256: d1abbedafe2182b5d22c292d04414feaed4298c5677e3765f6169ae6ccce751a
font_02_sfnt_off00012707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1