Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4d58fbf7cc1f447…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 06:02:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8658eea48cc4c4a22421a57b5c154350 SHA-1: be57d2733dcbb310e87ee7744d0a7a923c753e2c SHA-256: f4d58fbf7cc1f4477ae8582051bb37b21cf7ba87ebe4cfee237fc4cce0f5d5c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm within a PDF to lure victims to external malicious resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/2021530154153441.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d09fa33d3ee---logugowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/wadawemikafugizuvonurosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ml5nbq4irihrm08cplk56ej0v6/lapaxixunopobuduligupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210617230305244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f00ba67fee3---62611791627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falinodopuvinefafaxavoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7028df29f0---93971961277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/96727599152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdihn59cecpuqtbm1kro3kn0e6/madiropumoxojafedupenexam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/xowufulonuruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dcdda0b901---rejatuvevekurijezotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ba1642339---xitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17bisiv5ovgp3n6ueacbtlq87n/dutufujivevovuwexuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvfvbvpugf118h6n344u70im57/72893751651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/61105293501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3fe52c75d0d0d3c63029d50f230fe80/mutiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/botudakojamojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f4f9bd423---61816879054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqjg9npficvkqnhthdftdq3vc7/gukenemuvavakixulixukero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/farasuroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607584adab94e---548902160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/55675368497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/40034482291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a9fa45lim3o70aonqlecf3l6n/44999491562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1c12a07c8---42306564533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pure+competition+featuresPDF 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_off000101a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000119bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119BC 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 44c3724a0f47b4ee564e2a0e3cb978e492bd7a7adacc2fa67acee76c488f0df8
font_02_sfnt_off00013249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13249 17160 bytes
SHA-256: d3d597cd285c676bb2bc7545bdb2bd0d287e030d277444a99dd77593595d5c76