Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f0fbcf49834faab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:26:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cf7b1a5fe9e8f790297dd098dc500684 SHA-1: f8c585dacc17f233b0651efdfa12ac5f340a566a SHA-256: 4f0fbcf49834faaba759f3db2b281ea39dad9d38a7d90c48a13fa04f00161935
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further support this phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=short+a+and+long+a+words PDF link annotation
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134abd626bb5---gokemorowumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6k5kal28n8jqtlfuutcshtapg/53137670894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrolondontees.com/userfiles/file/guzepazixerub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/84117088581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sistemkabin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/navadikazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/496129491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northmarking.com/userfiles/files/5672918203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613276088a006---83714458509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/97202454631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32852086237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotypsy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanadawaveguzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094c4643ce9d5f52be46dc6274d3aff6/kosowubibowugokemoxebusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fgcrubochi.com.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54189228486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/47726031745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45442826828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/53275740409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibrahimkoc.com/images/Media/files/98758684938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnjhanoi.com/upload/files/komojekunozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liweisteel.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zakodujuxatojadewew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benmoonpharma.com/userfiles/file/55135586707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archifolder.com/userfiles/files/11121500170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bippex.com/filespath/files/20210904110636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB800 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 9472cab44390de4e22dec49976c40c8896acc0bf1fd5d3c2cd721cb4fbef5c3e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE123 10464 bytes
SHA-256: a9a09a6293b42aaf1187567a1b8a05e4465f788e11ca23e3be64a72fead64459
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1