Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4d03c5154881eb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 12:26:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 88cbcefd5cffb23319bcdbb6fe70d756 SHA-1: f91c5ae7dad11e5cdcd0251d758216a7362f9c1a SHA-256: f4d03c5154881eb375fd15aa8e7b2357627da78d31fb422ab792d31141f6aa94
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 and disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, and ClamAV detection confirms it is a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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 https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/274753b08d807a22bfe1365bc7617d19/43816910190.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/74753489569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5552cfad15356939d610aadd0f1e7c99/viroxitimeniges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/tukatuvalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewheightsalumni.com/clients/79364/File/gevowinosufiriwipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6b2f20e781---mamakuzotawubolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d3c1d40a7---50149083731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b24c69d47425b72da5ed07dd6e275b26/lupobetukenux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac81097facf---53827432372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091af475ceec---89077660630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbed56d773632807cc5bdc6f8fe32b5c/96190700229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/2835944782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/rupamowulegilaxorer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97600318293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9infnjeh58de27m89n70inbp0/juxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609168f4c6c61---rexefuruvatiwulukovuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paklya.su/design/img/upload/file/26774653733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d8bbb6654---61786346779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/japumotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c06d89279---5684199067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serini-cloud.pl/uploads/editor/file/duvurasunoxorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/9912289409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6360378149---folawikovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0cdc6442063faf5485b234838496376/78719769858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+save+as+a+pdf+from+wordPDF 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_off00012c86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C86 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 26dcdabfccaf1c0da839d5414cb5531c02511890ed4cad3d5161a760ab1465b3
font_01_sfnt_off00015a0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A0F 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 7d1486446722b77deceb27eb09383a6045cced7f000dc5e57f20229fd01924d7
font_02_sfnt_off00017237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17237 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1