Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4d26046ce41677a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:52:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: f3515c39416c0bdd046632b14ee6cbfe SHA-1: 710be4d6ae12edf778205ef5b227aafbed185a8e SHA-256: a4d26046ce41677a7ce2d9f83a7a62619e8eddd504826e4ea69e5d45a071a1e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and potentially malicious PDF files. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://briztravel.com/upload/files/kapizupede.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4d14e5cd4b---90101481691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117bb94d2182---97728514030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083553fbfbf7---sakexemogurijununazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f37561e6d0---jimifugasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/86290086738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/nakejeraledojapoxomipari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f1cba0436---52410181098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb1a693de1---53125952503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64b5d8fc50---zoretivukotadarakikubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24f21bfc27---641374302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocminhcnc.com/demo_thietbimay_24_7/upload/files/taboraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786e7ade207---46575929015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/83418287641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/lafugabamisegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40697209504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/manexukukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863b9a70cf9---bikigitepalori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/88729101003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biometria.pl/photos_fck/file/41782524716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/numusiwujiredatenawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavebnevyrobky.sk/www/upload/files/37868657104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878fc1ccdc5---sowowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a662c27b98---20391215512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608695bace855---zijovenabiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=free+german+children%27s+books+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_off0000d747.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD747 18480 bytes
SHA-256: e421eca48b94ae188302425178cb461443d05ae3c0f6feb6ab0cce39f87401f9
font_01_sfnt_off000106f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F2 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 289bb0ed6a2de9fa8ded5c2d769c38cc5c941357985c9d285e36fb83db909387
font_02_sfnt_off00012080.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12080 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1