Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fc9521670f6cb98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 36e7f0d65fc8265c92c58a88f69a5c7a SHA-1: 6f823b112d00873159dba5df1b4d985c666c863d SHA-256: 4fc9521670f6cb983b70e10c412529ab98cd0062765c17fd9bb5d1fdb02c14de
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading a payload. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6p6re0co4s4a7nrdnnnocaa66/81165663911.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fbaceda94fdf2049fb89b24d484d40b/gabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/11655806789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c28b823bd1---fuzepetedukiwumezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/6697746476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/24541314979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/170647210160e5db3762253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nemeckystrakac.sk/editor_uploads/files/fazebajosozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72pqhoauvi9smlrq5kbfnk89vf/33112875043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a5699de97b0f5b597e93fed04940aca/lawupiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b4d1f28fcdd75ca207a984da830fe0/mexodetuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/64880986374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7f762de453602abb9719060a35a93b7/5622747292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/937cd591a8a78b6adc58c63bdd83a435/zuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/53957886821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriardue.it/userfiles/files/xibajupokerevoguduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jr7bmgd7cj4qjj5igdfdrih8b/90160699145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108a6b8f09ee---77041375522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/54579885888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42c1dhzaq5aeb.com/userfiles/files/kamobivonefagorawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ccea38b21c---kikumege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c858c369bc---kuzewalatukamorozojorijif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec3efbdd9875607b1658f0c086a4796a/fasipisanazanisalezabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/82862024944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=rosemary+aitken+teaching+tenses+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000bd7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD7A 11404 bytes
SHA-256: c8542fc824b8695ce4be9e5c3975a9044be5f17a3a43c27e165a289420178caf
font_01_sfnt_off0000d818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD818 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f02a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02A 16452 bytes
SHA-256: 6f2dc446e2585545b1835cfdc599ca6dfce9ef48eb0970561fe7b4007b5fcb34