Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4266dc4657e8f6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 00:18:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 581f6ee786b5ff20cc6b9a9af0db1eea SHA-1: a9dcbdac9c0a8df663dc4325b71523f9faa02767 SHA-256: c4266dc4657e8f6ade9b064a9313b2f43abfeabf8c6267e0489ae1b9ebd8510a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0367c2caa4c69867db3b3407169b3ae0/94365893696.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d41632f210---81104977700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160871c5b06c49---mawanijasawube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72d9d7be7359f1c2079a14503ae0c0e8/bikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tootooair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210622_D5B44F22259B84F3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b1d12414b---28459123656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607375c50d231---fozikata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugamutekodigutobifixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce45773866a---61297087233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b96f21116fe---kevusuvejelenotajez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/7214289560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/96561627109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/xorituma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4457be26a0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marvistasales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5acdb45e2c711b0822770d9e9dbfdae7/rexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4nauggnjtllgqjcojl7ge1eftm/25883181085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/53198056104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bpmqcq5tbe0666varkcicquf1/20440052966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29d3f1e691---47550179182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/wojuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/nojeposijiwuxuxusirexopis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virus-safe-zone.com/ckupload/files/tunexim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00r4gbcboce1c34u251m1bdkrq/kogozegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=online+stylish+font+changerPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF02 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 862b543713cacfd2db5c9d3818b7d3fdf95f84f42e722a382fd904c14d47e29a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD8 18636 bytes
SHA-256: 85cd0756882ddc42e10dce9392b4e152b4bb2f0667f3fd0327d72f121691c1b8
font_03_sfnt_off00013f93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F93 1980 bytes
SHA-256: 75dde647322699ef3fc07674606d0a2c580b398d634637d420fe493006aac139