Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4471a6e1d8ce3e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ee248842641642148723f948b1255842 SHA-1: bc7a8626386d66cf4475a36e6a4d81c81c26be37 SHA-256: d4471a6e1d8ce3e8dd6b3cb048b1025c9b7b25dc638485dd0f75a414e3889b0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074bb2b02713---tazeleve.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dzirerealtors.com/uploads/7494281714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/45269803843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centrosanmarco.eu/img/news/files/62124263691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/tetuguluxazupalisopepetus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a34e2c4d18---wenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efd8ae8bd2---bubavupabibaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0cee2c3349---97261520638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91860998376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160992c06023c8---datefuvegogomegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/kuzitamabadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/lemobixazapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/numufemiririnoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/rusozavevibarutimobuxewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10h1dk3r2hqspv00oqd4pvrgub/17922687971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/genof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/77920500476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-21/20210521213123509831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3f83b91cdc697f572a2342364c9f2c5/72199777513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonyprins.nl/images/uploads/file/dakugaxeremiritefafugepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/81703107946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/rekixuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/94624859193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/zofupowaxitokezolulini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e034fb12d6736008ed76fc3c149fd8f5/xexufineragidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+process+of+interpersonal+communication+13th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED81 17128 bytes
SHA-256: c27e74ab30389611208f3b98776861ccb00d94929b1ce06605ac2b3786aa9fc5
font_01_sfnt_off00011a37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A37 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 63fd3a20e7de29bdf792c6e83d80ef8eb04e7d7ab8acad3762956c9295c65a96
font_02_sfnt_off00013434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13434 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1