Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4016fd8ff601f5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:01:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: fc24fcd638b0fe2ff032ac656abed4ee SHA-1: b8330a343f4de707a2bfb9459690957f999ac20b SHA-256: f4016fd8ff601f5ed68196cb99151ec3578e8bc85c800689dc1389b88cfa3e38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+assistive+touch PDF link annotation
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13vn7qqivbv0t9s6b89qmcfj6a/76752215102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwesp.biz/upload/file/wojuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/70413250668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/71352462103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h7ijeh6besvtvm3c88n7h8ljo1/70932230088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a2a404573db1b4a7a191de49490dc44/senezepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/54713246202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad93ba1b4f---16812510928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927c88769fa---94053878088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b4e91fbd7---geterufeviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsaovang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/mogegizevubalaniwodapeduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a9b770e378ff2042545767a04153c98/97704111217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/23155101229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oicenglish.com/imagexx/files/25934113437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/848127008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/ranufusaxorefuneferupiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f208a38a113252789f72c2140411b0a/nopuzorubonejorasatalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873f9e56667---2348431183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0aa49dda4cb91e69c2e606cc8859398/62425580128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c656878207---viramagufejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b56e032c98---54231919181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diegogenna.it/userfiles/files/61475274182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g2kjd9sv5965sgfk45e18t40gn/41198745575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202105300745537224.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE836 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001004d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1004D 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 0a7c87ab7ac3ec54a73ffbf41cf32635ad165d653b94ff03e4ea8f15a0746e1e
font_02_sfnt_off0001188f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1188F 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_03_sfnt_off00012dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD0 18472 bytes
SHA-256: b558e162e719f5e71e0307ece520c35d30810553e573fec4eafa9e5a93b92e75