Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4a121160d874d6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-27 19:01:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7b2c4ce89fa86cdb3844f06f94f5207a SHA-1: e87993cbff65f27c0619545fe4273166938c08fb SHA-256: d4a121160d874d6f1caeb17e1e73180a220188434c3b42ef482b0f7c35ecc44e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites host further PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage attack or a distribution network for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b6df38c28---43982571235.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bd01ad825---vujimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/1157277925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe69cbaea1---35010018871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d5bdceb8f4e4a7952196e8ee3a555d5/16742005424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/64011509155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7c90042bd4b6056ad834aae06f64d40/ropoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/143369503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/gipamenepinukovaxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/67260361694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/97653699022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f6839e4975cda5f89533e15c36af77e/95456599316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f1a94f4bdaad87c8d0e226519f69f41/kijugofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1q90uvj0arsm4a11n4vial3kk/wadelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davidfauquemberg.com/home/fauquemb/david/bbdg_site/userfiles/file/lavizulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzionradvanice.cz/res/file/tifakokebigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210607182623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/popibaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4db557f89a11bb608652550a2850ba0e/50085799297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff606a27470---pofulobivepibogumize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/1549802284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/751ebe88708296d976b3fabd0b02ffc1/49578578880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/42452510020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+five+stages+of+grief+according+to+kubler+rossPDF 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_off0000f921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF921 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 73e27f4e124fd35e5cf71e6ba17cd8f746b5897c88b4cd307b776e6ffa3c774a
font_01_sfnt_off000112f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B08 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 8d086287dedb0bec51359dbe6969ec705dc633afd6b5a92e2a6885cc005cbfbb