Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4184b5edc51ab254…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-08-06 22:46:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6295f34168c5302a4f0a8ab0913a1c90 SHA-1: 78a474e737593420a9b00c65aab7762614785b60 SHA-256: 4184b5edc51ab254c4aaf68600193c830fca3584624664b8a0ce7f5ff5bd9d7c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as lures for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/07/25/file/79091341799.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/rowupedobusijegumusiloka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d32qc6njm21tv2brrl3qokh330/xebuxovibiniguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/53898623264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stka.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mebepukibijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703193f23bd---jusizaropajex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a11b99e5805---87358829194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/52894678573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/18551276224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcb68b49e9---73778747230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyosushilohaus.com/uploads/files/runikizaxexafezezovovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gm4j1i2gd263233etuabtttpc0/lavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c197949485e8bc2f626f4b23df8cfa0f/53536593394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/85697048955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df31b4773a3---13789702957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc2c020642e0b5dd63d3293eb2687771/38657150913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c11c4d30c32829dd9cf3070daa665b4/fuxelujorat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ro51hplpmijms55hn56m0agh0/pejarerilepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/50289911615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sure2trips.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/zutivanotulubebajogikube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/41360920540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/35325478584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0ec2d9ebcc48bc153880b94e1e5f730/bupukefedafuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcf8fcdaab---96351555383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/26753869310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=borderlands+2+mods+xbox+onePDF 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_off000107ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011fc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC5 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 63bfc463647c5912097309b6d3892efc834ae40c6ceafa48e09128b5921fbc35
font_02_sfnt_off00013828.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13828 17756 bytes
SHA-256: 6a1e6b873fc8aed135e0249ca4166bac4dcb31658484fec3a9a8236e11d434ec