Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4c792a7cde47027…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:50:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c76e15e6f816ecca709942fed3821223 SHA-1: 3070c918ceafc23dedf51acc4dddd51fbc1d77c3 SHA-256: f4c792a7cde47027ecccfabd9d3210ad1f942c853510568b8270377073c3dabf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/4400920486.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7687e405a---38237501532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/lumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ohbuntc95raarrvukl9f4538lj/jizonaxulixobufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extracam.es/app/webroot/arxius/file/65135959759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e68157e48b57e7476c06a44523928d9f/40451135449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721243d0742---binutixaborovokalujulivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgjbreunion.com/clients/6/69/6950e03db8b1ea894755b369f0a03c31/File/vekuroxunugulejuvez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b22ff839af---sorirasirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2923227748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e31c237a8a3---67296753187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/90882021004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/kukanikiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094da6129371---zodewutadiruwagubiriluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/vegorefazologedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5256c83f85---20636687656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e8015631c7---82105183654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8aafea8bb5c9beaf591f60c55846c1b/dogaragovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/3550477007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/48092817317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/sativipibajizamad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/98856647672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f55b04ada---71712464248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jirehenl.com/userfiles/file/151722369765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802ac0820d7---29745107172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=paid+android+games+apkPDF 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_off0000f130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF130 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10947 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 601fc94b7a3828f7ad41ff260ebb91f84df7b9fccbc6e0bb81d6dc7ac13604f5
font_02_sfnt_off0001217a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217A 17224 bytes
SHA-256: 360241f1815781b1b2b9d6799cb51d83e415b7608a3e2a56b33b97605ed5dedf