Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f6ce21f3cc84369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:26:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f8a1ac6b439d31c24c30e95e4da0ac3a SHA-1: 3d86e0483afdacccc451fb58a2998a07985ffe01 SHA-256: 4f6ce21f3cc843693649a156ab0c0397cf0321b8619007b4add3061d6d2380aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, suggesting the document's purpose is to manipulate search engine results or host phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0520fc51d938ae417b37188d1a21ca8d/50830946652.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611536c83072f---10872529416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jucadent.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65600571388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc8234b8bc92b048baa073269f474c00/tobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210517140945_1984076725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufimifutifep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhomeshaiphong.net/app/webroot/img/files/96722349674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/voreza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/736b1c2487f0f423243308f3a22c27d6/14341177474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/2021080212260131642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://putzlappenborner.at/editor_up/37020459537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de3a25fe863db2ea731e66856cae9549/semurevogaxivutupalefamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalmanpower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retuguvapofegakiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b4b0c1a743---98310296040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a0c4c7950---51379489659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/wupetisabeleniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61976890392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/nukaxikifebenuvupakisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/72756581123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fb1c90b406882e7f090d833ff5e1d1e/21750475451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82260611698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/foliwujipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkmso7683iu7c3k939f24dp8ke/xuxegipixolizepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-23/20210823183706871575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ratio+and+rates+worksheets+year+9PDF 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_off0000ec13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC13 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 42beb8f4f72345fd03dbb62c07bd7e9d23230153e957418ca9f1105c0a69cae0
font_01_sfnt_off0001050f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050F 17724 bytes
SHA-256: 522a5cfbee2ec9b4782d8772df41c13e2466c59f1f204069bda491ad2f92cd5f
font_02_sfnt_off0001333f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1333F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1