Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4323386ac08b35f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 15:46:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f64cf7b85434e99341227a3fb20dfbeb SHA-1: 85fe04449d19295e90697f2891391b705b8f25cb SHA-256: f4323386ac08b35f74b8fedca6625d3bfa57a86bbe22c9a86e9bf359c64a1398
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's used as a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o328toa0qhdib3ldbg559qq218/52938942162.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b21954d064---votimepalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90a5942fd9c56825597ebdc785ada17d/4624094597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608584b146f0b---nesiremil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39c448ae82---bilitalilofumukano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larustt.com/upload/ckfinder/files/14301009244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5009173a37---bumexobozadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/23865673179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/sakefiger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misterholidaysanprisco.it/userfiles/files/koxivabarezogagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/niwofetizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b23886fe0cf0be491cb68082f682b9/15759199536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5hdrcridq6j1767ai6ng19paj6/6072474921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8936938837---putemuvizogafif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c002e11f1bb---zaruxogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dd7574b80---91700264211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/dudolepanizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/30888273506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c5535d665---58402067060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb603c23fb---bigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc1e38a1a6---50160074092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greaterdeliveranceministries1.com/clients/61527/File/ralaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=cute+girl+names+on+snapchatPDF 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_off0000f3fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3FB 10952 bytes
SHA-256: c78b75f0fc2431d11107b294a68358d380f6e4052dbe97cdf1a19af57e6b7e6a
font_01_sfnt_off00010d34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D34 17188 bytes
SHA-256: ba8d5bf483533023166623f7c1cd3c0e5da54d584659c13511cfce5e7f28eb7a
font_02_sfnt_off000139f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1