Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 604ca4727eea5248…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:24:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2cd5a4fbbbbf39ed643340ad26421588 SHA-1: f0e3ddd534707c5b5694d040d70f131bef044a95 SHA-256: 604ca4727eea5248451b857c064938835019b85246f8719e426fdcc079e60951
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d398dbd6a94---nadunavizunimib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/sopepexijamovewiwajida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877d64f27c6---bozabeximedabemojazigusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukorbetegshop.hu/files/22146320607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vejwun.cz/images/jabinororus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7175628394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/84598290211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biblioteka-belzec.pl/upload/files/71848688297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56ffr0nnp7hgosa0vok93qd3no/lozifuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://checopharma.com/upload/files/80321004747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ceb970a5f---lufimovebagubovirasuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbgpiti.com/userfiles/files/99022989841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/58662496044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce53c478448c3a970082c328a822fc08/64466616948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xumilezidedulapugudaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88376275426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8ca08cdea7---nisikagegabajaburumeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/79832211828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16078a06034df2---5918016178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/nametupose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnk2k1k89dps76vft3ad30tt2u/toxupozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/kufigadomiwiwafeweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17275bdf3f---3755918119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=illegally+obtained+evidence+in+zambia+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_off00017505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17505 11028 bytes
SHA-256: de30a4b78c0da73749e4842d40b0d3bda24c52c9ed69476791902ed73dff0782
font_01_sfnt_off00018e3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18E3C 18496 bytes
SHA-256: e22b4213843703d50471b4d136acdef3f172f422b14eefdf0ea85f9e2605d69e
font_02_sfnt_off0001be3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BE3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1