Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b130c74cfe5499a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 01:19:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 73d42c84e81964b4806b884122c96fa7 SHA-1: b4a310046cc3394b18a832d0c7da53e0f5223e1e SHA-256: 4b130c74cfe5499a3f0f196f2a372685832b79e5326bd90c3c274d2263fdcd53
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations and potentially disposable hosting. These links are designed to lead users to malicious PDF files, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddc9c4d1680---63216103289.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacdfd1626a---guzebefedup.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4488656ac1c5e8dfc37b09772c6c8f50/37317945916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608566fe231ea---31354543346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mk2erkphln80mhmrddpsdqlnrf/76202549368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/26063390143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligneus.hu/upload/file/54065712255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc949e1866d---44248666008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607058d0271c1---30505924804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/nosebebegawapuliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h1n5ma9kvel733o911j7uj916/3584845438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b8ed23feb77092acc897bdb6db06dec/44338290954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7927bedd77cc3c3aad3fcaea73ee4218/83117318450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/berix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///giwofawogibowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160761898c3b4a---jotuwasutugoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4ff6cb25b---78393966154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/41161562271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/dewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e3fb1d42---tekuvojuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exima.kr/userData/board/file/muzowite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f262ff3dc3ee770b4c1d0b48566aff54/sipipidonerosivok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=lg+household+and+healthcarePDF 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_off0000d8e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E6 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 48dffafac6548c1e8d04a9992ebdc9bb398132cddfe8ad497ff3ed60b4d17da7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F5 22584 bytes
SHA-256: a0f4a1322661cf7e9190db15ae9879069e4cc308ce8fa6ed1000fe8574e31389
font_02_sfnt_off00012950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12950 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1