Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4742c7ab6e474d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-23 08:44:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f5951c6aed8f921a5dba029612f9c635 SHA-1: baa4110963e635c2d6362980048d39cad5f24a98 SHA-256: a4742c7ab6e474d44ec1187eea4d5eb46087154da6bcad4081c9c6f0cfe4c36b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely redirection or download attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781c8193949---90485061694.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48612dc7a6a69e2c072273feedb1a3a4/figevikojelixasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bensonlandscape.com/editorData/file/molituwidafaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee27db93432d12b6f71a133485e79c14/69454156139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/maxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/73950089360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5d622db31---3859866224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/ramofogaxitipamapifitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/pigitewedudakobenofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/15561748479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc578a7edf3---59650553787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/361e7718c8edf9d50599e6babdc9cc0d/66623130870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68a460aa52d870d95ca5df082edcf33a/59699960258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090412d56e16---57737796691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/33906296849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec952b52aef---30657013452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b1b785c6e---dukasato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1o993m1n5s8nbs7psffpjval0/45652805798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ropaalmayoreo.com/images/userfiles/file/dunefikebozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifbant.com/resimler/files/24286226577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/89785732643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17d6a4259d---70186622709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/pelupasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/kowijebonuxumelen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=sissies+medical+meaningPDF 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_off0000fbb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C8 10468 bytes
SHA-256: 91f3949c8299afb711fd51b525f09892bdb6b053ee48747f5694dfbe07467d9d
font_02_sfnt_off00012b3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B3D 18568 bytes
SHA-256: c53a229d9e39d446f8628e195e84c3bd6859f90b9dcfc7d612b48e264acbbb35