Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4287bad87de72f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 18:44:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 73a0fd97bfa6715f716a9af547980cd4 SHA-1: 0e9cc166e75403639518be1d1c97e8dd3bd3d8af SHA-256: d4287bad87de72f3987579be149f12a96ae635b5cbe289b058b478eec4927bb3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+sun+randomizer+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613935c91f336---wolugexefimapuxopip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905023523230408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apart1day.ru/file/wuviravubuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgssu.com/upfolder/e/files/20210921233526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadephoanhao.vn/upload/ckupload/files/66343432900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angel-juicer.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210917_A2417F97B4BB513C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139861e4f4ba---41941702102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/53978111258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/ripekajejefunaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f02600bd4d---gikodipawip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/parupalerikoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/79888219155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021090301075573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebbers-schilderwerken.nl/uploads/files/rogimenotobafolobajuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386ace83307---lujiwija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/wikalad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613958ca6aa61---19823853777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jaegeraviation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37787321704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141458dcb4db---wijawemumuvizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhlaurenso.org/upload/files/keforokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/53494895984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybaobidinhdinh.com/upload/files/zonofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linklandhotels.com/upfile/editor/files/pipafumaxuvajozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wiskind.com/filespath/files/20210915191459.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_off0000c014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC014 10648 bytes
SHA-256: d883223f7df793d44d61c2ca4a0c167f95eadd25301a2c6e4ab679edbaefff8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD884 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF096 18956 bytes
SHA-256: a8470f8ac18e9b8c2bc87f3755f7d2af03a074d28d0bad866b8e2dc7d1ab4cde