Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4474c728db24708…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:16:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fcee183538a7e54dca7611362f12fdbd SHA-1: 4359bd62aa460ae4dc8ec8df06bd19c217e4e4a2 SHA-256: f4474c728db24708b20d4cf30408702b266236c97a5a8577f07d034b911241e8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8004a026c---99560849979.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968820715bf---10856607378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d93f3493b9---nawetuwebuleduwamizabed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/61312223095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/94649135792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084cc130f65b---xewinidupemalomixebege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9e59c79f0---xatudebolokijegedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aecdaff1f87b0ffe772db38ab99542fa/galerosamunexujulatotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhleisure.com/ckupload/files/82653313156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e94a63546fd---togelamimutelapomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobiliariaimperio.com/files/files/joruwifefuxeguxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7cfe6aff6---gutezag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44e970db692332fb6c210f0804fd9661/31088466136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobh.net/userfiles/files/fibidipunevedonineneja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9661fc608409515052eaa5143bd2d37/topizepekisirabozinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129951c47ed5---62040259020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e76cd7d410---sotade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/089a99c1e598e2564048c8398eedd2fa/43012780500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bodovesuwakeramov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92e5269bde---63264480445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985a8c35973---dojoporumezuvukonimoxebur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082761fca90c---87200618318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baf1cbfc3fcf8e106794e5271e251cc7/63102531644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=fables+comics+tome+1+pdfPDF 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_off0000d819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD819 10744 bytes
SHA-256: fae1fbb052e3d21497df8c2925cb4b4e6bde18e6a66d9e8a0ad12a0f6a7ca101
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C1 18440 bytes
SHA-256: 9b1f169f28ee7bc4d6bb562fdf706cd110a3471e470d5971dad803f8a425b781