Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4368e8e9f04d2ce2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.9 KB Created: 2021-07-29 19:47:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 690baf151d6540a9c8beb74a7047885d SHA-1: 658e99e96f9d6d939ead44612b4551f921fae104 SHA-256: 4368e8e9f04d2ce25a49122b5da15cc079798d6dc8752e97a17cea5a3cfffd8f
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' lure and callback phishing indicators further suggests a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further payloads or engaging in phishing activities. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/423372b99cb79eddf29c9983bbc49ae6/ziboraro.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3236b89671ab868f7beb3db56b14c8c4/tumapofeworu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/1242_20210703194245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image//files/1232573723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur4.com/contents//files/misexokugaxaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eggesvcksgua641ohmtt5gb0ep/rijaxavexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/64252875622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aytekinpolatel.com/image/files/zuvarunabatozivaxoxalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusburbank.com/uploads/files/21110703108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-noginsk.ru/upload_picture/file/webowutonogawekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/lokiziloseditakunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u03c0ni9vkf4uaha10f00um1hc/fimeporexadimusiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c077920387---12200753604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/rojasobodum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feng-shuiworld.com/userfiles/file/80258490679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6d82502cd09bcd6862ba8da1b4088ec/foripiranopikekinejekulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/16844780188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/89557751266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4tq6of18gkuts91kuvdgrsev4/zalimaradekube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1988.com/clients/75739/File/nokutukiziwutamiluxomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/zadumos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4896298ba0d85c964814179f74d5edbf/kunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aafe3486120012260f999c728aff1358/56363763766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ae9ef043c9621edc78f1a9c3ee1e863/gobefikakogewinow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+big+is+a+kenmore+coldspot+model+106PDF 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_off00014e87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E87 11508 bytes
SHA-256: a8409da939db7821207294fbee0db70f8bcdf063b098013f8322a1cb973c48ff
font_01_sfnt_off00016962.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16962 19416 bytes
SHA-256: ca90595ca0fd5d024efa5df7bcc151487506dcba1496ab1cee07a553c09c2578
font_02_sfnt_off00019c6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19C6D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1