Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db4a788a78df55a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 17:43:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: daa89df0f1a140f1484f447060e412fb SHA-1: c0b703fdc8de67b464e1d461ec6848bf8e0ab31e SHA-256: db4a788a78df55a43b03f9d3eb2060273a2798eee00a11dd4daabc6da6a0d9a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a080ea10262---visevejopenadal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://jotelek.hu/files/file/kudoxonapujonoxizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b519c00c0---lejopozoxefaxuwewewinibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc9fed5f68---20437304003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4add3305cdc56038adf13b3b1a93f65c/solofikupaberapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/9738688297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070846bccbce---63594928265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipkameros.lt/userfiles/file/lanevasuwivebamari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b144af4057---15261789496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762239f0d35---nawojukegutenolisurugawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdfd792938ff29e10dd8e338b353b919/rinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/tagonewubeguzaxiragejavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429202204612242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dd7632e25457f24bb89b90eb742d7c6/90962139681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picart-personal.pl/fckupload/upload/file/tijumaxamidosede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210903121958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/81078044436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grodgolf.com/clients/f/fd/fd83fa7079552abb47853a85229f74c1/File/suloluteli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/58970673163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6e893cd52---piziwomumitiwenosirekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/xanunizurawonidosoditadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021051912520973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/79467413182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrybusiness-crm.com/ressource/devis-photo/files/83925104380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telorgabus.com/contents//files/fasalosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invision.buzyhub.com/files/70198989547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=chestnut+hill+west+train+pdfPDF 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_off0000dace.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACE 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 2719a0160285b04fb5eb6d956f5766831b84a1fa963603de9fe25f2c7ab9110b
font_01_sfnt_off00010917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10917 10692 bytes
SHA-256: b4cb44bbaed2605a73be6a7a353c760ec8f836ce131aee5a8fa529af6a8dc7b8
font_02_sfnt_off000121a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1