Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4832f71c6f552573…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 12:51:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5bd4a06987059855046f94960837ade0 SHA-1: 77d8b506b2a122181b63e767352f84c1c24dc0b0 SHA-256: 4832f71c6f552573ae4f993de0bdf738b85ecfa76caef0421b4352655c8292d9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=background+zip+file+for+picsart+text PDF link annotation
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37fe8fa1c12550667f51803be0f67032/47002364636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sh3m1os4ppha0rofkv2p8gchec/ledavekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160953c132600e---nefoxomadomiveritixijaxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f172ef8907553401d18df12b3724ff76/dapidujapuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devison-matras.com/upload/file/tuxonugexafab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbpcpentecostalchurch.com/clients/65183/File/kemefexiseledigerut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/050f18251e8830e37745cf36241c2220/wanatiruzefewujoperon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://llux.vn/uploads/files/bumakadapiroligovobepaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff0a20262194bfe58e1f8c1adf61f9b/wolokodirojigatexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/65054705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a048bb80e437817d23be1394a66c3b8c/lozexek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/5247033114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fd7ebd6e2847c3525bbb23c2bd84912/jevimonopugebaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e6a2502406---zirogexadixinaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86159bfd08---pugufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608131e97e8be---likiwupenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/37071533344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f255aecbcb8b332bfd1e3bc0983c3e8/34024625605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607526dbb38e5---97138095449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/42036586619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094abc6c989a---xotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/pipowawugosaxazoxinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/zeguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playerpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigitirepijetuvadevu.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001062b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E42 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 7ef07f8a88770428ac079369f802fbf1d5f841b7498832ca73b1efa44f4e6ddd
font_02_sfnt_off00013883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13883 16068 bytes
SHA-256: 6d636ebcb28a43c11a0b96216d988d0aaa25e428b847d4e039b2a2a6b6e27b6d
font_03_sfnt_off00014d9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D9F 16560 bytes
SHA-256: 9f18f02a49d38b82e3f4e31b0fdd5e731770b5a367c3468520c73b54b7c47072