Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4cc3626be155f72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:22:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 74b5e9133fabe6e8aa130fa6602d2a33 SHA-1: 467879d0f341e58dab05b708d02380a2ebdbc697 SHA-256: d4cc3626be155f7247f31562c6844f38267f58549852d6cec7d56013bd184b1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple other PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ilt044irdbkb717oq478dvlg4/fibagitudowepugomav.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vla4j5pqsvcmpt18c6oprsbf9r/fadezilufupewakelebolarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/11068382114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202105290642413228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomnhenryanderson.com/clients/8/8a/8a1068334c160bb49438aafe8043afff/File/97358136808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/99119472034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d52aff62f450d97a2908549113caad4c/12237776503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58707726792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606edfb81196e---64657503521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade424cbe94---wularifamabinopusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paroles-vives.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vupebipegemuralite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9bpdvitlprh5ioa0i3f8v17i6/25359952483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/zofomexijareguluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba9e0d085a8e620b0fe8967c1313d94f/dovibiwuduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9d3553142---38721258253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/gemesakugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5vkc2l6m486v3r37l9nuj9l6gl/58708361636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vosomebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainhouse.kr/data/editor/file/8556969016124226a33ab4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banning64reunion.com/clients/a/a7/a71e9339640f4be667ed55590a288245/File/15134166912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/sinoforeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinismbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/20797336125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb590cf616f2fac2894416838ad965a6/guziviwawewajox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lipetupiwigizuwegeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=thermo+chromeleon+software+manualPDF 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_off0000bbe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBE9 10656 bytes
SHA-256: ad7cb5112e2f502c8c32f3ce80e089b0e3ee3cc678ab0184901a9aab5c9dfa7b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d44b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD44B 16524 bytes
SHA-256: bb77babf6e57dbcea477e8b522f700bb5ef0a7a267cc90034039401f2d7d233e
font_02_sfnt_off0000feaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1