Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4fe4f6dbfbbdc11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:03:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7275c6c301064697223b76c7888d0542 SHA-1: 16a0269f4399680341b55a7258982db94ff6425d SHA-256: d4fe4f6dbfbbdc11b43985bc73bf51372c324160c0361b8b61a09a7a3f9efd87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=leptin+and+insulin+resistance+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://rulife.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dupiraxukatut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btfa.tw/upload/files/jafumopexasutamuwudisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e9arbndlvcl8uqcou4qnq9ht/53443200620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulgankhangai.mn/userfiles/files/puritos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsengyogyszertar.hu/editor_up/gutiziduxinuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22cd13cfe6ab662758b496190970c023/93459276545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/94423817869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/pebakotejikalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtdsbinhthuan.vn/public/uploads/userfiles/file/xidevudomajebekugabamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf8584cc1e---92136212797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c97a04e58b89fc68538de354053fc80/morin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49b6249404---vofojowedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26b75304f0---57145655393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6250e01f75---vovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o60577jfpa9rk9lfqfsa67tv22/10293558071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210808074346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22b564dbe239e2e1fae040225581831c/viganebukujowagajugejojal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/55503462659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nergizleryapi.com/image/files/funojabevebevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/zolozutom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/wuzuxeneniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri8kkafm6ggarg6kfldgenp3u5/17723749365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d0f88a3d3---83592635265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkbroadwin.com/userfiles/60133185199.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_off0000da88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29A 17564 bytes
SHA-256: e256e6b910b69331096a19845d5db2976e9594e48ed94a8ce747df1146d2ee3e
font_02_sfnt_off00011ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FFB 10552 bytes
SHA-256: e445dea40b5e7519fa60150d3899f4dc61558bee6aeaa88c768c96b72591711c