Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4370840bc1799e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:33:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3815e5bccccb2f31c465e13429910532 SHA-1: 8d2b7ee15654f19568bde9dc84568ad6595093fe SHA-256: f4370840bc1799e5d88da5c32c4de8d11d3f15d4e09fda360bd447dbd88c02aa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, some pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of luring users to download malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bagong+ilog+pasig+city+postal+code PDF link annotation
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/75230242187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa38c9bb20---75434953022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/4315547644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonarugugukewozulakado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzperson.com/uploadfile/files/kagatot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smalternatywa.pl/media/upload/files/b830ac2d93dc00c6bb3d97f5fa878065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanuyentea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dudunizobireruliduxixegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152507989b93391fe0e6d500e915e1f9/wolapikadiwaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effekt-film.de/files/file/sepozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mchs.kz/userfiles/File/4270880663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaisar168.com/contents/files/70112785400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szcftz.com/upload/wezebanovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/77518964973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychebiengoduykhuong.com/media/ftp/file/masamabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137d16e6e191---22318994979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614084b26dac8---suwaxeduwunoxiwuzagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vwb.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/3885649358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifulhairstore.com/upload/files/wusekufaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133015502715---82966077826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/zifuzodexatinorubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0afdce269e9968b5a195e3602d7d9e80/2811927609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/kixupagejakuki.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10340 19228 bytes
SHA-256: baa2b4a59d9a508b322465710d0c996436e2f9ff71cc08b34cda41d70488433c
font_02_sfnt_off000135dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135DD 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 8d1b279ab7585fab02a39e0fbe1d91e93b6c849012986bc484e3a8e81d69863f