Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f3c6a42520d1da6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:54:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2c8d96626ced631d6f7cfb3748f2525d SHA-1: 9ab03221c0349a82118946e23e25a7a3de1eb162 SHA-256: 4f3c6a42520d1da66181445ed007699c12e29c960f03fc81114764c56b205327
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for executing malicious code. The sample also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, pointing to multiple distinct hosts, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69d75eb7ade733faf2f97668f34a7d34/75954273714.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iqrainternationalschool.org/_assets/files/ditevebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/48214685056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/265615230cd276b4edf8d236d0d0d0d5/weniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/kobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c2fe31ea---gufulaselajufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://battlegrouponline.com/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gekigojosagubefikobupok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/nekozewosujuduwepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxhsbl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210708_112100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/95490959790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mmk4ur33eibjjprtbcgop9362/norifenitujere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mmqqeseqmj5dqfiboaau9msj6/49392763811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7m01pphq4k4tnvhsn7hd0eqb6e/75276854967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pavezorilitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa67a87622---90896948065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af6ujp3656670u6pl583oqlja5/15031539205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161061ed384637---98101882913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportnazona.bg/f/uploads/files/19241943284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5ee3a2b6c---81965322071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/mitorurijipisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/nobulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.info/upload/files/sidijedixalodadulofizumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6433249ad---xanalire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=aula+internacional+1+spanish+pdfPDF 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_off0000c7fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7FE 20508 bytes
SHA-256: a096504ad23b25caa8343c760793400b0c9a2f6dc6b15a321995fb15343e0ed0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F2 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 542697b6ae502d9a996dec0d9d7582e0594028d7a386f25fb586940fadfd0a0f