Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e409888336add038…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 00:07:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 478b471392835758589acbac0f8d9c7a SHA-1: a6bd3e8f2eca579948ab3cf36764e298449649ff SHA-256: e409888336add038de8b16712a2aeb1ef3e9b0828f044fc0b944e7506847bc82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within formcraft plugin upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, aligning with a phishing or malware delivery attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f781b5844---81211754136.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.chp.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasijuzakodevidoxuziposax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwbaltimore.com/uploads/files/nikodezujifisipiwitisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139461ebaeba---domesugejifamedub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jocafoto.com/fotos/file/lozovezijoxopomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://receptabc.hu/images_banner/files/pipitopalefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/82394386432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a3da477a9f---kepamexesivamedeted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/naxivijatanuwewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knurussian.kr/DATA/upload/files/202109070554251486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/92790065127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/kujibanobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc8d9e79c7---68716711044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartenvue.net/appart/upload/images/54882171049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/divaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indianmailbox.com/assets/images/userfiles/files/17818809089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltmetal.com/userfiles/files/tapavixurawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac9aaa015d623524b9a59145ad84092/wupibolaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkhd.cz/data/img/levovulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9806037586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog/file/dekiporimasufodomabutosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/nizasubumibar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=best+app+for+caller+name+announcerPDF 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_off0000e827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE827 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010039.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10039 19512 bytes
SHA-256: a682d18a5a1792478b8b939cde2a346e26abc07a8e869f552f863a566a3f22a5
font_02_sfnt_off00013352.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13352 10704 bytes
SHA-256: a50a18767a9479518a3f7d2a4f1343584187262b78da91d4f16a79d2cdbc4612