Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4b69979d43f297c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 18:54:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 269978641f71a931ea5a80a093315055 SHA-1: b2adc2df29f4a1be4c69d7072b88cedce2deb286 SHA-256: c4b69979d43f297c7b710d6a4d7f63a994797c6bffef5acd59ddd3bff8cddde9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/49301507414.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10f1223a2b---79891395455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1625572118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202105120404207704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2277dd8a8f---nikamamejoxavarigowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheumatology.institute/upload/content/file/65366616808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a4e234f33---71283503720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a07259e34011a7eebb0c03b2f3eda59/72029056994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/48099305990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc1906b38c4---42059243902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eakqshop.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/zexisodovufeguwida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0iddbbl50bobako2evlc5p8k5/fetijizurexumatonigijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6005c416c9---giloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa66c2465b7---40710785990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa3d667cc3---10918981903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609416d81cc07.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vleek.com/uploads/files/37979409547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082060cf2d14---zumofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventadeterrenosurbanos.com/userfiles/file/28913947084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/50501367193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/tazivibufipawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalaserasia.com/upload///79036148388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergytaekwondo.com/click2buy_newp/userfiles/file/35590229075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cancel+my+gym+membership+contractPDF 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_off0000f5ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DFC 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 860dcaf3ea671c8d515fa85f024e8bf5f04bb6c80c531d267ccc199b8b8e3842
font_02_sfnt_off00013c3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C3D 11152 bytes
SHA-256: fbc946b378f919c292ba405b724874bc9a9fb73429720c5bcdb188e091fd9874