Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4a9e734841030e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-08-29 07:22:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 46b8b07c9aa1528f0a9496fe29258f89 SHA-1: 5913275e22bd52b0e8c25e6cd4863ef2ed8574da SHA-256: c4a9e734841030e7431c924486941a22f2bb2ac90ad72dfab255b5d55efd0ada
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs confirm the nature of the attack as a lure to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eaf3a6ed57---71626794172.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86089970fa9041b7d1810e5c8ba8228d/72130211068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4sujf5c9gueavs13f4num5u96/xuwuzobumibigokof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coachhouse.info/assets/file/zifixumubumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/runiwefiruvaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamaopole.pl/userfiles/file/vifujubomigezaledef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c60b51fcd1b39763ed4c01b8eeb1bee/79965324456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/nalexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printjet.pl/pliki_user/File/10096868654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075387a8981e---pipunadolimuxajijamoxowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1706df75542c93fe917096fcb23df4e/tonowev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdca7a6b1be---ziredumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pn2p6pd8tabbrfdnj53c4lvk7c/galivomewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiksha24.com/userfiles/files/pigerejofaxogerixeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/dasesobivulipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/boxafakuzirewojujive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/82954471424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/xexanuzitagepupugoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e8800ca5e---xevezegake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/xuwemexozexigisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b476123a1274e83ad49aa498d1851fe2/6401103581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/78503252215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81254627381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=write+down+all+even+numbers+between+70+and+90PDF link annotation
    • http://janyska.home.pl/_mjanyska2013/fotki/file/62694990040.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_off000104fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FC 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 3dc131e737c43e8f5d4d7e474f400b129a3867a30e20240d9e25d1031091ce76
font_01_sfnt_off00011f0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F0A 18792 bytes
SHA-256: b260eaad1312d94f9f55771e96b6f269c5141250230509e78290af4a0e0d63b3
font_02_sfnt_off00014f95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1