Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b257b2197937c44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-12 14:16:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ae76e5e4a0e0694d3229e684f81ebcf0 SHA-1: 125350a386863eeccf016bae633fa6076ad2893b SHA-256: 4b257b2197937c44f2ac3d3f67dd79f8f78b0321c025ed74523333a29b62ee97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates an attempt to distribute or obscure malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa459963bd400648ae15fbb6a77700d/75337089961.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gerastar.com/userfiles/file/pobili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/13361587211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d32ce373b95---vevupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5d5c45d05---66251956889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/rusakonobagipuvimoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qca.ch/userfiles/file/40785406161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/71397609625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7eece6b6bd5ff7307206f844852e8bd/kuvaligudux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buzunajuwopadazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e377225bd26235e78b35a378882a3c/juniravazalizalumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragadsonisurat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lemesefejupevomefepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/54209514199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://champion-osk.pl/userfiles/file/89832695062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/94203353528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/nubejibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a42ec1dfda---gujedobopefobemexodoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanomax-nsk.ru/images/zakivovawabina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/gejudas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d9c3411f2dfc92778cc7188de8bfe8/25261634990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/delaganagetesawebufexiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/vukojakasigagukotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41e1f63f644e19f3d5235c477dbcb8aa/sasijodemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ae7f6f56a79802e9f03683cc4677ebb/muzimoleseretaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+build+a+queen+size+murphy+bed+free+plansPDF 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_off0000e6ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF06 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 41c61f66f783c56affe28006a1fae8211dee0ad545f2c3cc9635f35fb2872cef
font_02_sfnt_off0001194d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1194D 17020 bytes
SHA-256: c3352ae131c6a489349413c6050ed0b0b200ddafa4a9f93b52b176d89c2adb5a