Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4fb516172e0d60e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 11:48:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: e8dd2f981f3cc15c1cd54aff8ffa3b85 SHA-1: 0ec71a302719c89871499ca68209270d0131e11e SHA-256: f4fb516172e0d60e3d2bef59b3964f78d31fb79b3f6f3bb715df5bf8be802a0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristic strongly suggest a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/88265543330.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edc861dfca167998190416cc818b5fc1/56349354431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/jexiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/kufomivowamufejozenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upbfassadenbau.com/upload/file/20444307696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sukukefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b15cde902d610f063e7bd9872c123411/79942888161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/tufokigowitomiven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e605e38c2dd1156041ee09793373556f/3031133844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a57822109be---84057637226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/wubipatafowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84525e02db3cc6221f03b4c009e48bde/61847745535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee2dcb5b325---figakewekufoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a7fea59191ea4ee5038e06314f58161/kupitugugapaxesupewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rippeggd1jifcuh2ipicanfu18/35203595374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xokawalevonekusobefik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa27aced2c---19140710299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40b06e5b62---zolikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/58255451991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliglobshop.com/userfiles/file/xeragovulufuboviwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770e398c7b1---pefuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c62f930f9---lurilase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5df6d5789---sagarawetoradopaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daa3139c3aab9c9c06ebd025dde54e3a/34090575487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdjfi3aobah3u8prkcq7ejtjm7/61889812854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b720df7e2aaf9853ae0fddaf9f81b740/90286562426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1507b5727fddf6db3c94136fd12bcf4d/74739298760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=dieta+para+ectomorfos+pdfPDF 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_off0000fd26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD26 10632 bytes
SHA-256: e5e7e880d647b339a5430ae16d9a9b95e8da1f6c5c50fe61a266b3a9cd2facb7
font_01_sfnt_off00011586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11586 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 96c97b4d3fb855d7402b827f4b39d7e476996d671cce73cdc6f8e7944c6746a5
font_02_sfnt_off000141bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1