Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fc02ada988e2c5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-07-12 23:32:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: af3d7516e0d2afc53dcc1aaad1e15d83 SHA-1: 22d34a9378051d0449f460213aa0aeb73c52f5e9 SHA-256: 4fc02ada988e2c5a7e2b2d6a55f59a2fa29330b9916e815856cdc9aebafc065c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or trick users into visiting malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+army+ender%27s+game
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/gamorokopozupez.pdf
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44210362603.pdf
    • http://okulsanmalatya.com/imgup/file/tuzinaf.pdf
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608261901d3c6---30648641611.pdf
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/wajujibosesifotedazoz.pdf
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/jetanavadaxozekosi.pdf
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/dapepaweke.pdf
    • https://southernlightingsource.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b3e1cc3c1bc0d35cb59ae4700ef88f5/fugafevatoduguwawinu.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a153d9b7beb---58219617574.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebe9b7e43d---sejavogojadenipexike.pdf
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea3f077512---duvojezudosalogu.pdf
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/7796792732.pdf
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/34037996699.pdf
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021062709144180554.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/941gtqsomhjj5kh84an90hf50r/53991655447.pdf
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc83a19286---94640697761.pdf
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/zudokejevajixewugubenawix.pdf
    • http://virtualcharityevents.com/vce_cake/files/files/52730201225.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4cdd282ee2---66779489317.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b49d.bin
8101c6f9343a3769ffe0b1d77ee4d5a844242cfaec35e5fa2329fad5985bce1a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB49D 16012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddf1.bin
979cd80eac5616b990ed76b4c6002a11714e89dbf42c23c52086c9878c44b118
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDF1 10504 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5a0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A0 16792 bytes