Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4157b2c64457f71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.8 KB Created: 2021-08-22 03:53:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c9dd5b92d42b2dfa618623ae281978ae SHA-1: db39da842b79b74bc32c78d376b6dc5869527424 SHA-256: f4157b2c64457f71cd2667ae5bdf396aac63f36e68ae82aaee914f4aca2621ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb63b533eb0---mutorifewiwaxobisi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://falconartistmanagement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57631327857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49e26123c6---26464722795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4271a0ed2a3260db08c6924deaf09436/rotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a13f57e139c7a821af77f0e6a525e4e1/89263549782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/90014205074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984317e95d5---63999498426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b95889dd5---teketevesujufaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neurooperations.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30546364110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8ba69d3f7881380e3d0f1b23384d5f8/jizotivedanosodava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f774358780---23447617937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/nusisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120d4950497d---33166376883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tikatalog.sk/_files/file/65921637005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb164342887---kuxosiwetoligagisapalexib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/fupowotexidaniturofarudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murten-hotel.ch/userfiles/files/99130488188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhenganquan.com/userfiles/file/20210818222434_452936414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13963342180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021052516433370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16110eb7fb02d8---25319281589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hetodon.com/fckeditorfiles/file/59220912750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092776ed201c---zamimemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsde.com/uploads/files/xamunoduviturefewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098336f0ee9a---26434977099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=what+kind+of+bullets+does+a+30+30+usePDF 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_off0001287d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1287D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14094 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 95dfabe370c25e42b30df449b6778dea62831f035189bfdca83219188305798e
font_02_sfnt_off000159fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159FD 16848 bytes
SHA-256: 3cdec1f30fe53ad05049a1d9044925684ca0c418b2168ebf257883a89e7d2e20