Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4764580b4821ecba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 18:36:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: d01e55fb128c4d5568c3b2f4a6bfc72b SHA-1: 592299c6a7e56e3500855c1533b64b70fcb94e15 SHA-256: 4764580b4821ecba1da6f13c799a7bbc7e49d6931103ea50f8862df7c0df0307
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to trick users into downloading malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=christian+marriage+certificate+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a586310ee296fc942950715b0ed7a97/jajarelewowubifogoxoxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/88670165618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ersotqsdvoqi5b4hcnmbtgfd/zufanepukitofozenitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0a447d5ee---67085305947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8c7869ead---lowobozeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071342be2b0c---bovomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/895a310f5560ce244f59d7354f9d362a/kaxaxigelukufusesakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/67112392585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c93b474eea---womaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpbullies.com/clients/2/2c/2c827f09d77a589c2c5c7da8c033a3f4/File/kopogavojegokepewed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/56472389511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925f46914a3---5708286038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eshop-kocicinadeje.cz/files/file/86502118695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/16655165460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8e04989m503d91bsj4j8g9i0a/fovunugixopugoremigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/lamogiwelevuwaraposibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8ddca66471a6f0f679f2bd8c4a3d0e8/59415812665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf1654473e4d87397ff568c58abc8ff/19553819201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/vodababewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/userfiles/file/pozejereleviwatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c28317a70---tolavezasuwejotapelaraki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b0fc927c9---35960163125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d760.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD760 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 08a7022819efa276608357e84a2525c382612201eb9c7c36f3bb3a12b417b131
font_01_sfnt_off0000f04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF04E 17152 bytes
SHA-256: 83d9322557877b88ec2c48e1ea583237395ac36b616ff275688070cb2e8d016b
font_02_sfnt_off00011da2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1