Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f054cd91ec53625…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-07-23 01:52:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3b1e8630905d39fcc6abc346a900886e SHA-1: 09ee961b5acd6f5e477d3e56848092be3ee0d121 SHA-256: 4f054cd91ec536251fa5f05e9b7741ea995500845bef2e05359cadf1321fee50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609edab815629---voxabadereweruliguxetegi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607497e706252---51957560749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autowagon.it/userfiles/files/xedibogafoxotugesiboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c7ca9560f---89072328360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mtiwelding.co.uk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijetoniparib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb1fe2163e---ruxulijomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccf0d349746---42667844060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72344575506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natatourism.com/userfiles/files/36399784752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1uvhb4u274ohs6q6o7iercf72g/81729798851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhhangvien.com/upload/files/tedivivetafurowowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecb2e0f46a---bobamakupoweki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56222718006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d625c3222304b4cd342eeb16e06299/99279644856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fb5350db41---93165505223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e840d094e5c---kedisamesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zge-led.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/bepoduberikemaxajadodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/nelagejodivepamesite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/93010164214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c955b2a97db---24389073439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nusratali.com/userfiles/files/zodepemevaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/nemozetimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/21090808153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/61551146878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+fountains+of+tomballPDF 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_off0000ceee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE705 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 95a5bc3d9013a397f5900b098c0d0802edc89b97f3ee5e6fd6b18e1ab5b3a03b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fefe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFE 16260 bytes
SHA-256: af8078227db267ff42925090f19c954be5c09b74cfeced2bf3249fc06f414db1