Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4a21b9d81d16c03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-10-01 03:14:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 047a0871f14dd6e17ac64a69e88c5791 SHA-1: bc52839b55c4d135675b7a5e1d092342ff92af3d SHA-256: c4a21b9d81d16c037c0dbf26746fdc3fffa07107a82ce2760e39cee75e6a51ab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification strongly support malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a deceptive document to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://ciiinnovationsummit.com/ci/userfiles/files/66296949667.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/68894357411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veganogle.es/uploads/ckfinder/files/xowafisumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medosojewellery.com/userfiles/files/tezukabumenunujazumexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever.dacola.com/upload/files/83927346149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusamulticentralestari.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/nalodajizepavogesesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c50cbef33d---81792166271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.fr/ressource/site-image/files/80106558992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-leasing-management.com/uf/file/zepibijibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb4c1e13f4---mibetatapuvupuwomovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155f6d3361cb---bozoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/22326201188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f713201404ce4660ea8e6be4fa5a21d3/5394359634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newhorizonscrisiscenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58176680446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pecsimutargygaleria.hu/files/file/fisufirewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3ca9a3c234d2f92c9708df87da0b7a9/nagaxabumegitafunuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smshealthcareservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90189523519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okudshava.ru/userfiles/file/debugadepuninarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs/files/64356447756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2jq2lkeo42ih4jpokm5q2l0a1/pulawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea4498fbe4e36176515a2f2296afefc2/93703663010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/dogasugalaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=android+x86+minimum+system+requirementsPDF 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_off0000bad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E3 19236 bytes
SHA-256: ab7115e6cebfd246d7283f0894661befdea1983734177e7958d35c8900189c98
font_02_sfnt_off000103e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103E3 11020 bytes
SHA-256: fa38aa33352bd3c49c3670e91780efb4a69762b50b9d8262e396a66035ad8a13