Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fcd4b608a8b2ccd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 13:58:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 599ed71469ba3cc65f3824d71dda8730 SHA-1: ba2464fa144cef22216a884acc5fb5193af077e1 SHA-256: 4fcd4b608a8b2ccdec07d588c4aa78006c16adb2cbe701824fd300423008f8fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of link farms on compromised CMS platforms and disposable hosting points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613983ebb8243---28792185137.pdf
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/sixavasujutoxa.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161399a66e0b46---nekomija.pdf
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zidadixopen.pdf
    • http://koutingchina.com/upload/files/tuwovarefixag.pdf
    • http://ingmarcofaedi.com/userfiles/files/tebezarifarimolijozisifu.pdf
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dokesexifijowi.pdf
    • https://designclarf.it/file/gotakef.pdf
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1d11f79ce1b2ed004d757fd3e215ae3/xuraxifexizulegoz.pdf
    • http://canadianrockies.ca/files/file/punagokid.pdf
    • http://meetburgerusa.com/uploads/files/dafosutasemufemojifen.pdf
    • http://elturo.ru/img/upload/files/39508152211.pdf
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9031320c967bb62c8fee2e203bb6441/45973779963.pdf
    • http://keemunblacktea.cn/uploads/file/09052651258.pdf
    • http://www.rupankar.com/fckimages/file/95039539615.pdf
    • https://alebusph.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/94997964634.pdf
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/batenewuwunevixopoboxu.pdf
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb1akdsvpg5rettlue5r1c9ai1/jogivozibukodajisudusezal.pdf
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lonewaxuwutijepirop.pdf
    • http://mishelik.ru/userfiles/file/nudetegotuboz.pdf
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vamagufiri.pdf
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/jatubuguvujelazoxo.pdf
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/zugifukigazapa.pdf
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tedisegokipu.pdf
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d08734ec2a---54523048954.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/70573882902.pdf
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/70357139587.pdf
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/nupoxivunarunudutalolaj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=attack+on+titan+online+multiplayer
    • 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_off0000e35c.bin
54db2d9449b2b5af2d3894107a689afbd6171b57770d1b730496d6733605c282
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE35C 17392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000127bb.bin
74c1394286525d3e64b383ad0b68ce59db22e477fbf35a841b71d3e191d4af15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BB 10652 bytes