Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f67fdcc8186bf8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:07:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dfabea94718b4c6925a7d771e0766722 SHA-1: db00abe6312375d0340c1446a022bbc1b2e0c616 SHA-256: 4f67fdcc8186bf8ae52fc62dc6429a917494c9de82930dce00b91405e3736388
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of multiple links and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=relive+sports+tracker
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/48790558619.pdf
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bfbc2e6fb---24483758814.pdf
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f801a2e108---47349296303.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5b9915c02---wiwekekedopepupisuni.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhco28s7s3gqdu3ba7qe5p9qsf/29618695833.pdf
    • http://ever0036.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210608111854.pdf
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/togitogebi.pdf
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/21685135147.pdf
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/vatodolixukipifaxumone.pdf
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce9afefec8f3acc43376a6c8380eef91/nakumu.pdf
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asjit0smm6fte5e1qui44qqi9a/69542644152.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079274e31d45---sejisupitogud.pdf
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/68991130327.pdf
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609071032a067---65560283558.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c796c6e40bc---87825462346.pdf
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1a1e28664---jafubosavivud.pdf
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/zebawak.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7893501cdc---70158380258.pdf
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07ed3e35657aebd5d6d836a358496f25/7051230584.pdf
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d53ee9b30005f243c6c40718acf161bb/19732790976.pdf
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d405b655a47eb245e918308442a7f3df/rupatukovumugubeju.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f369.bin
b394196f52980d5e35dd01d3d32ff01458c6daa63068f411b18edd51e468a3c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF369 17840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000122cc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013add.bin
ac3561b9e7f04475598b396bbe91d9e0fe07f869e388910c184afbb31a737245
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ADD 16728 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001520c.bin
20027998dad8b12dd587d3f007ac744d5f3567512c47f1014fc4f3fab80e1c48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1520C 10464 bytes