Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4f104fec378f4e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-06-24 22:28:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: db1231ffcd42befaa5aabad8bbad4ad8 SHA-1: a88cee1814b5aef1702caa927f89e7a198879b9c SHA-256: c4f104fec378f4e6f644a94841dddb2ca9256e0067a2a881b2809960f153a78f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a lure for users searching for free piano sheet music, redirecting them to potentially compromised WordPress sites or other disposable hosting. The presence of multiple PDF links and the use of a compromised CMS upload storage point to a link farm strategy for distributing malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=boogie+woogie+piano+sheet+music+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • http://vienkiemis.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/bawedavajudekesizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d6948e13b---zukirenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09c6ea7223---36384257374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79d24778fadb9a654d665b3b27c6fcfc/bunopopulapelevofirepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b963eb0a299---63907831548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec2df4df97---94588177454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/81967179623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavingcare3plus.ch/userfiles/files/65448909230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c7ffee9167711f7b763a3f5ed41b21/29476201748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/486cb6f2fe9ff37b544fcebd345299b1/13290706908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb2d478b5c3---80627434058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37b73cb29a---zapinagajorubijugalobirib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab98d8047d8---disugoxokatademuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79faee3f8b83dd0a297906ed3705cef6/zijimaxixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b498a75a01a---75333077138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBE 5676 bytes
SHA-256: 1f843dd8aa7815b7bb2ff7b37e5571838b08bf8afa8dbadb3ecd617ee0098af4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FF 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 48a02c52a87d0200df74a7a6d82f1d4ca5f8145a4d8281ed8c1898ffda8a28f8