Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4583cfeaa528bb5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:55:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4bb6218a428494d9e8044bec62947980 SHA-1: a365e47c638ca6ba60bbc4d1afe4aa90698605a9 SHA-256: 4583cfeaa528bb5f1bf70edeb32629d79ec4901fab88ec17586f5f991708776b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/ In PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57965434164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608205cea38b2---bozuduvobuvukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90ae2bc8ba93d4745e70fec1f4d6eac1/68750500935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/180vr2fkcov18ml83ne6ssdau8/rumesisetesifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1055f9a861d0d7b4fc7fadd303c63f26/babitubimiwevuvatulubom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17057ad2a5---gotizas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/sebixonigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubitanduk.com/contents//files/mimogepujav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/zutiripubasevipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbomdr771c5fim4ifv47bkkti2/niviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20328696295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160affdbc8070f---bowemavazemediwesodamowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-08-19-14-09-59-fsG5RPgg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a523b9ddf7f---gubagajudagotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fa8599d4cae61aa41de760be21f0e99/7700289608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webornate.com/viking1/uploads/files/kunugefikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiksmodalux.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/43076289654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c243769cf9ca2484db3a493d7091473/16729334847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/77703122654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bm1njfsdn70buubt3r1av04qlv/pavuwawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vq99p37rte3naq0464oobc02d4/wuvipawakune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/zazenobefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=estilo+de+liderazgo+autocratico+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_off00012df5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014607.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14607 19228 bytes
SHA-256: 227ee2fa568c9fd0734b9668c8fb4cafca9f65ba697a08f81716374e20629ada
font_02_sfnt_off000176bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176BF 10836 bytes
SHA-256: bdf2d4940ef174ebdf461ee8485c9dae6e7726b7fdbbe6e73dd8eae071b77f1e