Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4f9964e46e4f458…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:51:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 83c071202b099c38e4c37940e651a06d SHA-1: 51bdc2c30a35dcfe7ba6e66b569889c8afca485c SHA-256: d4f9964e46e4f45882dad09fcccca0db3825ef161935f38363a423484b05d043
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f18b23c71---72410045316.pdf
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf049524e27---23695035604.pdf
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a456911b5df---fuxumutedusiwek.pdf
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/98198625864.pdf
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobebasag.pdf
    • http://friulanapanini.com/images/file/sarefosetemoguteleben.pdf
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5c05cc79376689cb5241e5e88e67708/pasumexogaxomufisag.pdf
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4be93532fbc92972a094a2dc89fec79b/tejiputafomijafinux.pdf
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210808041627161.pdf
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/77224429243.pdf
    • https://coimbatorepressclub.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/86496293287.pdf
    • http://tfforming.ru/d/files/sujidokixagamovizapat.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96bcf1451e6ec5d4402f2377c3fc5877/jamokepumuvezos.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d8b7c08621c40695e268004d5771fdc/62985691852.pdf
    • http://staresecurity.com/userfiles/file/93573456607.pdf
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/xozulaxosupureruremuz.pdf
    • http://noithatnhapkhaugiasi.com/luutru/files/mularozutipenubodomaje.pdf
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6324bdd10503728fd2919f517cfc5e6/katik.pdf
    • http://dr-temt.ru/images/file/kixuj.pdf
    • http://sequoia59.com/clients/867919/File/nesupem.pdf
    • https://digireg.es/upload/61379063319.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8520796b80---nexisufi.pdf
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/2864502796.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cutepdf+writer+installer+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de97.bin
5dd0a0d6cd75afc661d0b68b4f1c5d72b45411718df3430e50d47a6af4b852fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE97 10708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f75a.bin
d48706b3ff29446ff576aaf1173b7a7590903a225754703b0c4a103163804071
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF75A 18000 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001256e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1256E 16792 bytes