Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f725be2667d4763…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:01:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9a23ac2fbdd4b400897228298c87f3bb SHA-1: 009f7c85d529dc5e8519646adc05b73dfc4ac628 SHA-256: 4f725be2667d476305da11f934d8955043b7327aec45957fd71637e6b1538f04
212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of urgency lures and password-protected archive instructions further supports a phishing or malware delivery scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc3859b0f9---kutomot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relanilozodubikitanuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/bemuzemobanamejow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd4e9e3f30---79376911627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itena.si/uporabnik/file/18419648242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8babf070f9ab6133ce12566fc2c33ba/7233050815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d4f7200ae---13180877270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a28a6a5dcc99b21c5ac271fd8c3587a4/33368254405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents//files/tuwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakurahoaanhdao.com/webroot/img/files/70864884757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118a55072a72---liselodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.donboscovizag.org/images/files/kodimilorozefizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bb8b4b0ced---37784563416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b5d9ea08e---63865513074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/kedonulawugogogebegiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ee4db0561---19257331387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/xuxuzojuzofezefosewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f848cbd74d---91608001418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/nepokijejomidojurokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210707_080911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/23872456019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d63565e71f---40832522833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/matolojojufamugusipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=orbans+textbook+of+oral+histology+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_off0000d3f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F7 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 0ebf36f2f27829b902908f4626c2f4a93b639f06e9955910eb85badb0ad591f1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FF 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 433a342bc57beb03dd0d1391223f5086393bc9a8b4ee9ed4b842b241a27949fe