Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f490c09363fa8fcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:41:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a683f2c4c6ead82422994eb8c2bb1ea0 SHA-1: eeffa0de12a7914a79e4aff48eaf0e9baf1e1b2d SHA-256: f490c09363fa8fcdca9ad13cdb65054870d54706312a6bf703f8b6f4368ab831
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also strongly flagged it as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fea5176ca5---fovuzud.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ccapostolicchurch.org/clients/1/19/19d200bce63520a637954fb60b162b1a/File/42361896451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f72e282bad---35334341760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc44c1be299---kegepufojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894c9d11bc4---59815533366.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/67911667252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbae32a8b34---nokagodukijuluzuxuxazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d29fc89cbce99bb58f393b4580158602/66962057539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1u6sg360u61lv7lc0vknt4vqf0/16130902178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0114b6c69264235ebad092ba5e2ea8a5/41177229867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/petarevurakokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tv7pon3r52oiogohkie57pdm60/53667681399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/jixapewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/66735668979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/povuwadipudilunafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87cee313415b4825e565f5c4c636c3b6/40817887977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/70010294032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a61b5b18d7---83716582527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/zubuzukefalise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/91266091274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b56a1eeabb81fee223a3cfe9aff3f49a/28433743924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents//files/56597773688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/38158328652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=self+introduction+written+samplePDF 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_off0000ecf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF4 17436 bytes
SHA-256: b4b3d6941ad319be3506ae7197117960ba6c34d71cacbd09a7b1641907ac1399
font_01_sfnt_off00011a8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000132a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132A1 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 4f41b72aa6d8a34d5dbcab4754395e1b106e67b95e69e709e95bd1a18667c300