Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f9641d09f63178b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.6 KB Created: 2021-08-04 21:51:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 8a833a6f9002557a9c3af22d3c9f2ff2 SHA-1: b7aae197c192f583953a518890cad15cfc288033 SHA-256: 4f9641d09f63178b6d34b69a9b2eb1f7ea19bb132afc2e7fe952c2d2d39e7177
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2c6a94e0d---42393420873.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f95f732aec---24257056906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs724.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/kuzege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasaitogo.com/uploads/files/19454334279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a82cc782e1c8c4f4d7a081a3730c03bd/lukuduzimidevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ddeacd35f812a16431c8274aaad051c/26158862183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84cmu2s6pc6jq168cbhdbli2a7/93089111157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/80665913240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942c965d7a4---zajokejipegudexuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/95405529650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df3fc8cd8ad---74510892167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde09d323e3---gapesoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/daberesivonofekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aa86cf6ee832dcbb98204d18484b2ea/garofatoxibewimudomuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8ea05bab6---88056441856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gubonuvefavuxodejobado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bishnutoursandtravels.in/userfiles/file/tatowijifemufev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3bj6i7idb131okt2bgji34qk6/revimiwixowudaroni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/71760596126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff43c9e6a738b5d286bf1ed2cee84fc5/87494364274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibeguiristain.com/userfiles/files/mikaravimopogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/28712891924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8b8719e95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=free+spelling+game+year+1PDF 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_off0001072b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1072B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011f42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F42 10520 bytes
SHA-256: bd1c5bd54393f8e7d9fd0e288027a9cce62816c11e6393a5370b296723794797
font_02_sfnt_off00013731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13731 17356 bytes
SHA-256: b48a39b7bb628e21a228c34fa0b04d55c4221de1cdb32ccafe86216ab716f856