Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4c71ac35090c1f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 06:05:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 297915247f79744eb6bee86b23dc794b SHA-1: 6eda728bf042ab29930b8d3400af064b7d67901a SHA-256: c4c71ac35090c1f531cf0f3076a99110bb4483e083736b865639cf40de2b9024
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to download a payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, indicating an attempt to hide its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2e0b51cb7---novejufefaked.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb0ed872a5---zezatunujowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e093df8d3ab9ab144ff1fc6568ac02/71649517613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9mpcggo29eo921ag6ifpa0no9/84684818902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5845255361---39713396405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/xusavemasunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78f36bb61dc8131b94950dc0afbeb015/91133382949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e39cd8ceb---tejuwufimutikajoler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6225e1e05f20d1da8b139e9459f4b205/15288471298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/vakaxokowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/76374150381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608816a481a43---58393757642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/zevufevevomujogebikovutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/8494772405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/76747024775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/xonozuramomumagipedutap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/pofisimonureloxikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolyclinic.com/file/files/48818294100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lideparts.com/userfiles/file/1620606713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b3093af551b79c6f3568b29053bfb3/1255490698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amongelite.com/ci/userfiles/files/85625676706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80890266069254adfc33574dc422a6a2/26973933374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_1D14A800FA6F3E90.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+clean+your+lazy+spa+filterPDF 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_off0000ef13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF13 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 450b39e8230e27054a00e9a6f7e5f01c69c2911c715ca3326040e3b139e549f9
font_01_sfnt_off00010844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10844 17232 bytes
SHA-256: 9d7e73ca185cb9949c0256e64af90027201140f9e35d30b5f5260f6e4528cf55
font_02_sfnt_off000135a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1