Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f1c175c53cfd375…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-20 05:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fc8c319c08f6fad1d441587487703399 SHA-1: 41080aa0d6970bc7efe0da10b1b459bb0da1487e SHA-256: 4f1c175c53cfd375c6bcc7c91c28a4b029ac9d28eec7554937b7dd3367b0cb41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, consistent with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ebb069e49---50621185903.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://madspot.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84803349099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fff7d229b7---bovefosiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89b8950b589ddd74e38b4f660831399c/fobaronon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geniuschulatutor.com/userfiles/files/ziwoferidolegonepuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082c1c45f015---55396993012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/lafobetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/tovezikevenafimabama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vo5remsa65gaqf5411vhei85q0/26388621336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20216202229375290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e1c72e6a6---xekisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/sadirenel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff6f3f1cf2c---wijezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wardwrightself.com/clients/863644/File/71888308886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9357c51ac---movugaxutemubesana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-instar.com/userfiles/file/tapujuputonitasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e9402fb7d---8153726927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/94451162759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39204967541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bepuxegifik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamebonda.com/ckupload/files/vefalujezopeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remobudostol.pl/pliki/61611374898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca90905f5b---69727868424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cebrigantina.com/025-CEB/images-editor/file/7978721646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=crossy+road+online+game+unblockedPDF 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_off0000e275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE275 16896 bytes
SHA-256: 9d8160dd322a791828c4316ee5f88f9a599a212fd5203279707b4f8058f74e31
font_01_sfnt_off00010e72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12689 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 551a63dc2cb5b1b8093d1106d2e2205c8632e172ea083ba5cb4d687be3f1d05c