Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4738a1a0fa3b504a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 04:48:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 56c6e2c18e7d1fb1d541c7f399b54afe SHA-1: eb1ae8c4b83e58012d016b46786fff623deff293 SHA-256: 4738a1a0fa3b504a9d2e848c99689802249a856630a1034aa84d8d2987e13427
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9868

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 https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtpff3vnk5dobfntbb4i21c8h2/23663137679.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c24b6fb18---nisovifafutarefazesum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a170f8baf19---ravutinakitimevuxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086129f6ef4e---32553973009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f112ff67939f688d66daf0d7148930a/pexub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/8991789957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bdbeaae0bd2eeff6fbf9a05520192e5/mafobixaseni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609121510187a---58495014849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b269bc07fd4---89213668409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/rivopaludinobonidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098366111fa2---59212054115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p02rte4qsjop2v7ejad0s66c2j/vojesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a3adee329---pufeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/sobufegizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba3d4a5990---momuxigaxamufokonelazejuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elitelawnsolutions.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ved1u8n8cfcfg5601dqeec6vu1/sisenidikezowidupalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/90621533535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/49980869912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3r844oji1btt6uuf18o4s8u14/90868490042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f7578b60613b16bd0a14577f3808e66/30557870735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t5tkt2qv9bpi7vububuqhg8p4/67315378742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/84939447321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/77772861350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d3eaabb68---woxenof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=lacquer+over+lacquerPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000126fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126FB 7276 bytes
SHA-256: 83a7b399f3411510f0ac78e2a9f57a4a5eab5d0c6bce268750c5e91341b5981d
font_01_sfnt_off00013f73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F73 17952 bytes
SHA-256: 89ad8415ef84ed5d2532ffd3fb636f37f1779795a8656f431286b8bcc259b7e3
font_02_sfnt_off00016e14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001862b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1862B 10032 bytes
SHA-256: 754c9115a4f0e02c91c0a2ed56eb1f0769148bd3988188b5c9d40f1099edd2a4