Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4503eba3beb31317…

MALICIOUS

PDF

378.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:25:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2a9913e347a64085a0a0fab909e48718 SHA-1: a347fdddb90939a628bc8af280f9d8cabb0e3ff1 SHA-256: 4503eba3beb31317df09108baa587eb8dd421994961f33ce3fe3c237309b32ad
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links to compromised WordPress sites and an SEO redirector, indicating a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content generated by wkhtmltopdf, providing no direct textual clues to the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9862

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
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.
  • 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://dichocungtoi.com/userfiles/file/jorubusuraximixadubeba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndkk8dtdn1eq9ci6e4i8j748b7/zexosurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qej5bpcpr4plim7dn65iosuoi/43448772259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/notixanokubage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b440f6445b---birunisapiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e30022f02---zizadakubibopaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c66039f7299ab625c80e473628ed98d1/93451077059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e55d356a4---52403688464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/87400615100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/60cf3222b3bef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c976a2577---44755944257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/botuvozimisazigoruniki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4smb26gq3kqp30uae1vgl7hu1/masigidelururitexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paillasse.hu/userfiles/file/jidanovopamodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20e9843e75fe5220f840db0596bb40a1/nirumemovagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acda469f78e---15674572793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960c493ff83---26903688987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rosrcjite8tu2dpg99shjhn6a/velinufolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609828130e4e2---83651257655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/xaloniwiwima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f9930a5309cbea355c7290a65c067fb/timubazakigagotafiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/22659900543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73h2kgtladko6leohjrgt2kn19/lopoxareru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ca+foundation+maths+additional+question+bank+solutionPDF 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_off00057758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57758 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00058f6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58F6A 19752 bytes
SHA-256: dd4084a35e5c127f57c31be3e7f7d1e52f175970278a873d5fe18fbc955124bb
font_02_sfnt_off0005c146.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C146 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 387a5bc59b1805e448b6b2ab17ace2e3d3ee384f8265c83739b7d08167c17373