Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a09dbc4659e0eac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:51:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8716bedd7cbe39a4bb6d4332623ba9b4 SHA-1: 5cc3680b50a12145825afcfb0436cd1bdfb53574 SHA-256: 4a09dbc4659e0eac9922899e081e248f72fe5cba1bc3eecd7bfa11fa9c95a9ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, disguised as search results for 'excel avançado em pdf'. This pattern is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, aiming to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=excel+avan%C3%A7ado+em+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73icrgfr5lv786v2rel3rguuc7/gagobukozekoxized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/tukosotenukabenorosawafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaktoppet.com/ck_imgs/files/69454717847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/zujagitulubexisafumirogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okbicsc2qbsvlnv79p8sd334sd/89873938461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da4ae39ef4---73285066969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073989c1ca2d---vamomur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02379195e2fb390dd3f233701f302296/36588922185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrmax.ca/clients/9797/File/reloworekubogemelijamamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/62607431308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/donasonaxuvujadowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s22f3j80qhkdld4308e8prfoh2/wofuwixepolaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/xirumomazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/sumiwesibojusorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oiajuemuun0ip1t7bmed4801n5/97291171667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/91849138461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe57e1e42ef---41820441014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/38849848591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/md5tdmk8thtgsbj134jl4g8461/zufalowenux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/zejozunoximegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102f87c9cbb0---wiregesugotatawijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tjpapigroup3.com/contents/files/gurapesebituwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oislsvpkpaplkvbgcair2m9i83/50545827290.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_off0000b941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB941 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 75302cd19d71dde1d0c7c2cd33148a7ccc724acf49d7dd2ab80ec0ea4a788889
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A5 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 0015c6cb64830951048585ba37963fcfd236694409585df286b40838a3d092c5
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1