Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4d708b290435b2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-27 13:56:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: b32f546b81536b895ff7821b65236552 SHA-1: ea41cc8ee2b351e25abe99d1739e61af24ede745 SHA-256: f4d708b290435b2b0e89080f6b1bcb997ba2d7e5fd275db9496e91ee241e940f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. These links appear to form a link farm, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/objtkb0ip4s0njukei2jhg1hb6/3896777024.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vietcuongcorp.com/uploads/news/files/39746512712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/39798794572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ls-machinery.com/uploadpic/files/202109101605449299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/39722699225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/14612792893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9bf4k64vd4ir3cu7a5f5n2pod/goluken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400309ef2da---48603924304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614795f67995f---11921676675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.l-games.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tazajugedipenimuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/sosexojusokojizadov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/sumasovikabikiworemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doina.md/fckeditorfiles/file/duvazufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skisun.it/userfiles/files/rixotidafase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d111786047---tadajepura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/26677521897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/vugakaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laserbeautymachine.net/d/files/14165557333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-42351dc5a6b3.prshots.es/uploads/userfiles/1631023140/files/45479952440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thenikharvconsultancy.com/userfiles/file/zewaxelezemowelodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021961732302104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bc0e7821a3---70268924503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/wobuwoziwajekabonoveruzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/97359828833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/29035109282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marmaraisg.com/images_upload/files/8607918074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=social+media+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000b8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8DD 10588 bytes
SHA-256: baa1a6233fb8a46c1dad2bf14d1403d3031ed9bc1da37c46301f91ac78ba444f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8FF 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 9c43bcd7ad1cb62d5b93084e1097428990c4062cdd2ddb10c732dd4726456d7d