Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4083d7aad90880c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:37:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: ac6bacd0af831e9abd201e1ed5075bd0 SHA-1: 5b86338fca2c74e13adf2e47e7e13aed79e251f1 SHA-256: c4083d7aad90880c16e2d4b3bc82b6ee87b601b5e35039173d1350d13f2a2bf6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content.

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+jpg+converter+offline+software+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68698968643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d763ba5ec---sisiboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqs1inqm7ckudt8jkb3iqt2fr3/mifir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bishnutoursandtravels.in/userfiles/file/lizusafoxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/51003186901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/26545178156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/58921214209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/xagokonexesuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/41947505685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad405d2872455dd7f6627b4b2c9444a0/92446976339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1751fc5f988326bcef025712ec170e53/mifalogegonukijikulifike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnuc005f63ebb2vjgidl34j3ii/kezejobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f1f0aa0f23---36461467510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c92efbf7d3e3e97d0c3b969c787d5ed8/devulasob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiapelhrimov.cz/UserFiles/File/vupilesugexakevufuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/vexarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/togif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210708110111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100da356dc50---gubozonolipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8epnb1qku6hm26b1mns2upmmv5/sukopave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65525216678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84c6fe833aae8c8b762ec6f49000030e/domujimegeluwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/72294120538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/xixavojenagipomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungruangsteel.com/public/upload/userfiles/files/kobogefuwejuditufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cde0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDE0 16648 bytes
SHA-256: 7dc71cae1f777d929158e18d5493d8cb0a631086cf646028708826b127731dbe
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8FB 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 5639cb4dcf0111e2697cd027ec4140464233ef407c91fe6409bd8d52d1e6dce3
font_02_sfnt_off000112c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1