Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ef3fb3190010795…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 20:34:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 752d802151eff7f205e819474d5627b8 SHA-1: 4b35804e62377c58deda708b646aa2b3c566663e SHA-256: 4ef3fb3190010795ace3e3824eed07dfa088b3164e66f940e65650658e8c2a1d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcfc7fc9b66---birigulezajiwun.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/15741283234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xosadojoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a37803eda08---50145505230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7ffaafc8a72f6b8d823911a008693a4/30927316575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7o2arampvhbp9j7alrr13gro6/50362935893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94613uuqj6urcb2isujji1nut2/mojezopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735b133d379---30377349260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acccca412da---24254101447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/kaberuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4d53b2b06---zaxolufavesevaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c08852c4c903fa229d8a9bb390a044d1/lubenolomubekonok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91a5b63c8---pugobewozibixukemewadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9peks05qs6co4e7et4vcnkup2/tififowudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winkeleninzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/zegogujewulaxadapodumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3869f17ae3---xanozavurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barksdalereunions.com/clients/869108/File/modowizepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/safiruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/38719153241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021050213115533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=man+with+no+hobbiesPDF 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_off0000ec5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5D 16548 bytes
SHA-256: 560517847b95a1ae6509694e4d6094b1d5f4cd3f17145a99c9b813178c117965
font_01_sfnt_off00011709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11709 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 2d7358de67fd09ff56bca0514f0b6dcb998a38643ad6765c989d5f89189b2135
font_02_sfnt_off00012e35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1