Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4ce965bbdebac04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:57:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 92e42b3a94a6f652e83aa5860168a782 SHA-1: d594e794cd8611a5f231d68ca57682643d8dc86a SHA-256: f4ce965bbdebac0431c461703a5c45dddbfdcb3c71cd8949fab6bb2377789f7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this file as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of a link farm on potentially compromised infrastructure strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bcd9cb9c3---pexopizokewajigalep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a5a16d46dd---20170904823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g0878mc87rh53vim7ecfk6hf2u/fodolubirozamidinirozawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1b5d80ca0ef472b593bbd3989a16def/wilina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/91484083019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f51f16701f---rulewotowerikagik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fubc2ple142d8d6r7phk1dgb96/12154660078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiddenforrest.net/clients/76790/File/bixaduzasisepokow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/41964709438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/27051573251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulsaperstein.com/userfiles/files/82954626588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardsonfamilyreunion.net/clients/7/79/79e100fddb184f5a3447a495e7c481fb/File/18321932359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/54615113475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitepride.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/kefegitizaropixatazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29d229cb06---tuxisavifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/xeluzaxazepuzifilategudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qkgpeiaigno4shkfv18eb41kci/tidiwutulimarisutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/sutiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vocal.bpv.su/content/files/files/12504125312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42889487741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0ebc9d057---32192655987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df14498f8da24c2e883b3e83bcafe59e/navofikosigogonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/kufulobawoxesowarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=projection+in+technical+drawing+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_off0000d1b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1B4 17100 bytes
SHA-256: df618ad40e621771f66d7d9db80882c680bafdcc11660dadf86c019f4ea3a7c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001164b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1164B 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 8db9775eaf51e75652550b94dd6784282fb371cb9f8e0f12723292a8aa865291