Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4f5ed2a285ebc2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-28 08:31:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fd4452a34730e43eba1f81e93cd4b9c9 SHA-1: 761a649fc40f26bb0ff3d6b7ba2002eb051ad71a SHA-256: f4f5ed2a285ebc2be22c6eea41291d80fedce5bb5f03b02d58d316a3de100751
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains no readable content, suggesting its primary purpose is to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://dlzhrjd.com/images/uploadfile/files/vazereget.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/bogavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b383d5e5a75efb56b791ae69767b3373/kosukupariramafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/juxase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/99679106174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ec2205c8b---4732903273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/3348892420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xnkvinatimex.com/uploads/files/bugibofuxusekepenolapoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf4cd90675---9693537900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/wirajivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0afab5283---xometeguvuwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/70251080248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/66117630556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a072bbae9---ketusalekifevugabukuzinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608968c290196---16354561938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/waxodamidedexagudaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d00bb50e0c---mesixor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fda616f99d8ce970204329f228dd6c3/34905427280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busanpc1.com/upload/fckeditor/file/tamonoziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efa2cd351d---55557043958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jokilaaksonratsastajat.fi/file/11290520267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/43079895891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03e60d554c43c472b1e8d3b3faf4ae60/82947743661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/96631061344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092538c22d07---worurujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7to5ekv9nmmssj5gh3nqbg49qv/39653237185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=rasa+bir+pletok+adalah+brainlyPDF 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_off0000ee9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AF 17196 bytes
SHA-256: 68717d399d795d5724dfa645524675ce113949faaa21dfada7034755195b7ccc
font_02_sfnt_off0001342d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1342D 10880 bytes
SHA-256: bbccfa512c8d594eb2e1d8ef321b442c13c7869f37a259c24022ab987c922580