Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4d4bea2ec66557b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:25:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 42764ceacb5ef4869566c156357b57b4 SHA-1: f7651439c4bf6507b7790c5bbf66a49e1645aec0 SHA-256: d4d4bea2ec66557b4a10007b46c28e00f6dc906209c6a9cbd57f3cad48ac6f19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or use WordPress upload vulnerabilities. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to these compromised sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign or to serve further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+ide+for+competitive+programming+c%2B%2B PDF link annotation
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d4269daf6---28346452026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d5b0ea74bb8a794744a167856689083/moriradalerixutudujosesak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ee301a3b9---32919752568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/14557036940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/pukulotuzajegepineviruxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3ognbqdjb0mro9bhbvl1vgl3r/rapafuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/xovunififovirinitojapuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/revejopuxonikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c90f6131c601d08222ac52ef99c9f93/remavopekipapaxiburupojur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/zuzokogurobipisunotafepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evboosters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c6de243ebd8c6ef28406ca88c4503d/lokiriludinivotazuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/tedabinoduvusetubusokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szaniterplaza.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2013957273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mc2ncdga6evckhcnuvh43fk5r3/2991047959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8e8f8fe90---fixup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837dec0c2d2---5644604399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a07241833a2---65264694107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d41d72d6be8---bejelow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24bbvdpbh6ightihg8piljuc7q/likisovenuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/9303022508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/sixoputanuniwizexixisawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44ce48f0371542d7422959da11e96614/7915127284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ao4qiou02onti48i92mr34fsmn/tunagigeturutedoleb.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_off0000f57d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF57D 17660 bytes
SHA-256: de80b726461ea3ae1766222af5f808b44b4f7efafb0863b88b3b9f884efb709d
font_01_sfnt_off000122f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F1 11036 bytes
SHA-256: a1871e7b65355e48d79042ad3c9129507897f54d598e314386389485c9e31500
font_02_sfnt_off00013c7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1