Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de4c49f29c17b609…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:09:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ef0420aeeea80f1d205c2cdab4ff3ea3 SHA-1: 67fa741283a1169c1aa99a98ec781c1b29e42159 SHA-256: de4c49f29c17b609970465c1cf248a5ab53b2935e473ad6fa7d66a2e0a21aede
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting. This structure strongly suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ef5758a75c0152ada0da7d42b507c8/26309136557.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39fl44krc0u7mparu40okepg39/90447206285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/78538164256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/jenazaxarotadar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f26b9c76ff4f69264c16f309879b4c2/vodazupinaxafatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/55312057556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/mimomokegokidegulebewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/21420703250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1e8931cfb---17198892572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608252dc413df---daluwenoferubenerusalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb7fd81c1db6d3047998beca7ede2373/fukikexuburivimaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705b5406f22---relalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2051bbc4b9---rafusoxulurutogijadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85483ef65d---dopeziwinulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/sekagofufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765722d1821---23282526478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b05493ff8376916c4a2a40fe3fa04950/34541667562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960d5c72017---24220215541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/353241844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b58f666f8---xumabewubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/15242952865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c219b9b13---9871179269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64dfa051711baa6d5fccf37c90fbdb4f/wobodadurugapevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymango.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ba5d2c78d15fd9c16fdf9f17dc7abd/91173657356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=greatest+common+factor+of+18+and+24PDF 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_off0001022c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1022C 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 7a723121bf9ca2751ffa92d40325f80e09b55273dd4f80e03a9550d0d7b2692c
font_01_sfnt_off00011bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDF 17020 bytes
SHA-256: c4d5ed19f9769d7d68b2dc2e94f553e4cac267743529242d7d1cbde8f15ba589
font_02_sfnt_off00014829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14829 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1