Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c478b04058f00326…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.3 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:07:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f3efde79886ea1fcb33440c90cc2333f SHA-1: 6f34522b830a5897a6ec3bdda213b018420d56ec SHA-256: c478b04058f003261922057e9c3f66aedd41778d0fde37fea98682342a2597b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to a compromised WordPress upload directory, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9873

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613480c463bc1---54880189757.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents/files/76325903132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/79732921122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/42582420221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divetechmarine.com/contents/files/87306261796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skinct.com/upload_file/file/Fl202109011554449497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384a42b2672---fokufidurasikuguteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/ketokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19640722975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airfa.it/userfiles/file/27528908535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67003216950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakaruinzinerija.lt/userfiles/file/79804701504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/75021840587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yildizteknikelektrik.net/resimler/files/takojijefonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daejonggyoyc.com/userfiles/file/20210901173243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dbc9877ec---jowixosopixezarufolijusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents/files/84489740778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/kufasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-oil.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/mubapibibeguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/21632368653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaqalsports.com/files/file/19787382065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpxs168.com/filespath/files/20210902075823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7c9b9d1d4b40a5e687f5a62a64b3e94/84079534468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ls-machinery.com/uploadpic/files/202109111724325139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48182711970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/wexosemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=spooks+series+1+episode+3PDF 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_off00014834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14834 19792 bytes
SHA-256: 2736c9699929becd5c4bf2bf708a978daf5801cb3937f44b4be8ae1e1b48bfc6
font_01_sfnt_off00017bd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000193ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x193EC 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 7998bac5a5431f08a7c143c23d3631254057fe0c3b4915c43190feeed994be19