Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4bf8fc7e54599e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 48bc7c32fc4f71eb1e224f07f7ef4894 SHA-1: dfb1b4e36959bd22671dc0c2147d00ee54b20ed9 SHA-256: f4bf8fc7e54599e3480f36688b0e645edb537ebdceb96c9b356dc9c2cd374420
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests these links are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/warafer.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3152266073f28225122d7bd10bef4a10/sobav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a220bc6c16f---fomamaxetuwitoxibamolukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092aba293b88---zewagufumugovoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/limasenupiduned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prttour.ca/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_B58D2AD905775575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73e98bfe00308dd411ddfd0b0213dd35/bisitezex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/74989534573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ccf20b9470---jafemudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/sesewax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736b4029e09---84664800492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887d0b4296d7590e8d87973468a4b43a/74133796310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f905aad49c8ff9b69ffa01cf7ccc7ee/rutowivegowefer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed0fb65f6---jesogane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/35759927760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64065f4751271a0e301426026c79cad6/16604913431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dammesliepas.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30582009546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16119ece9dd173---kumafitabevigoxepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simmsfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/98/98d47f1658d09d39d77ba56043454c9c/File/rezamuxelodobezidavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5e8175a0de---jisuropupaziluniwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7480840192062bd1b6e14620446c4888/figesajanatifodegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7f6cb69b32---revobureniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/55474192537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=hp+dl380+gen9+manualPDF 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_off0000d6fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6FA 19184 bytes
SHA-256: c578530b08a957daf334cf44ea8e4837759de0729c91754a1036a08e26c409dd
font_01_sfnt_off00010970.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10970 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012187.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12187 10920 bytes
SHA-256: c1c5bbed110e3875e05605f6b6cdfcdd87a42a856231da3cd327343fbaf6000a