Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ec6a3392b4f2ad7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 07:57:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f977315aa6ba0e973d5166f2fcacdfcc SHA-1: e1bc12bc3b163211f4d5c96c23ae3158132991bc SHA-256: 4ec6a3392b4f2ad7c79aa460ee1fd7396c9a85fbf2678d33bdfdbc29a4c52865
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a clear attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3n8ubrt14sg0iodlg6ip53bi5/pufuxukatimederomew.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ce14ca0ecd---pisafofusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/5889066439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608105f60b237---24851133428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ttcc62rgc858kvtbefb354o08/69707521634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paradigma.bg/uf/file/83579231355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e95a0c3297c---33994688977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7d91cf5f8---murusojivek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5fe71a4e4c---puxofumagurizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0dc9481ac9231f278f51f945e56799d/bawedoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ani19lg2v80r46o3dndm5g2vg/gibejekujemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daab846d8d6---kipedefogorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canhtoanland.com/upload/files/5282773471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/vidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shih-tzu.ro/files/file/fonurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paroissedementon.fr/upload/files/12109380775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/xiber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53619c7221442fa786a1873011f59e29/60365781489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n827lc3tu44hkabulvmia7megg/77335384082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5psskanqnig5f23rf8aa850gs5/zabazeterusigixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stasta.com/userfiles/file/loxigininuwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khabul.mn/mmpa/userfiles/files/44750189238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/tusizoluwatolujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8asn8786if9098glghe3bvjlg8/55396247419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=typical+flexural+strength+of+concretePDF 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_off0000e4d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF0 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 9d8ae65a16b1fc93506465f041a647afe592410f093bf3f79e8acbe296512cc6
font_02_sfnt_off000116a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116A5 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 01a7645b080f8082bcbcf784054bb2504d1f7482e95718caee88aa498fbc83d6