Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4a4d4600cf65896…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-07-07 02:27:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 77ad63137be3d4b8fe7be74a4d3a6be8 SHA-1: 37aaf5aedb8a2496dc80039f2b6a74cbed548990 SHA-256: f4a4d4600cf65896b66daa716cd5e8ca899b5b92b6709b77c7523ecbfc47dfde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites via a malicious attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cafbd7b53---fizuxejotenufira.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ecab78d11172b3060b44122340a50cb/xezunafu.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2b0909c11e---16514992396.pdf
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/rezobomenajuwewud.pdf
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7rnhfokfh8lbq75pevdld64hqi/93288781970.pdf
    • http://beytarimcilik.com/admin/editor_resim/file/xajubi.pdf
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210703_B7B1A0DF791C2417.pdf
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rea9r53q899d3fem3ngaa4dsb5/zumolarowupif.pdf
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/47859737370.pdf
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92km60o4jiadb6ig7r5chfh3us/40514203545.pdf
    • https://aynadakikemalizm.com/resimler/files/ruburatedot.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a95a88ceae---20745599454.pdf
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ce046bf05---wuzijovumibozitupaxeni.pdf
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/20388455559.pdf
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/romapepu.pdf
    • http://gruaszarate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21585418079.pdf
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9942a5170---49087647430.pdf
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/xanuguwu.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbce709974---gugelorijowexiwugu.pdf
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78e60e5197---53472112130.pdf
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/43083499735.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=439+cc+to+hp
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf40.bin
35fdaa45ef9fd0fab460e21c79ef79e655095fa62b48dfaddf6e7f654f1cfa97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF40 17696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe08.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE08 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001161e.bin
c30ac3944c66bd461fbf082c34bcfac6d70c6a268ed2aeeec064c1a3ec7c49a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161E 9988 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012c67.bin
bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C67 16252 bytes