Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4f7acb6ddb670e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 01:26:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f57c0244197dbb31c14562f0c73f70f6 SHA-1: 8393dcab98e4c173bba4443f93ebe6ab17227c9b SHA-256: f4f7acb6ddb670e28989970fa75f4981f06fc0a310e2d826e2232ff8154d4634
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tap+vpn+app PDF link annotation
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901102732760364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dd11b9554d731d97a87f08e0cd5dee9/turiboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/wuwetexavodefaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/repevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/91183472588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143b682503b2---12555376640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shian-jin.com/UserFiles/files/lewerudadatup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/11327850333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultemergingmarkets.cubsindia.com/files/tisegukimilavesefinamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ab59b66a4---sibosatisejazekizorofuvut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aaptuk.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70924554311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/38599721300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/91029086320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614305730e08e---pafunorurirukakoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonuxoxorewasete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/notasasabigukuketigunito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/zofoxowudobukedenarisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/wegisozexugafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibestedu.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/46605388678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markjfox.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/54756623353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucg-eg.com/userfiles/file/nalemofozisowojibanewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613628d7a6951---zatenerirafogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaisar168.com/contents/files/3358918085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elisa5888.com/shopadmin/upload/files/53810665848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/175f71f2b7b0ef0ab37b5f135e885568/54499707240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f509.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF509 9516 bytes
SHA-256: 25fa4c746e29d1289c4a87b9e2616cb6fb1cd3e5b179e28218e62a71189cf3af
font_01_sfnt_off00010994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10994 17048 bytes
SHA-256: a2ab1487e5a6071057f4ee5104bf9d561c19b4532b6094a27766c15f37d7349b
font_02_sfnt_off0001363f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1363F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1