Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b2a97f962d45e93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:49:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6c8a83fbd929173e4400d426594720e2 SHA-1: 5a6b38aaece694027fd6be071629f1307a5041cb SHA-256: 4b2a97f962d45e935509744246493672853ec0e019c1d070d8fccb5c97a12110
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this phishing-like behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ae33d2f6c7---5766617746.pdf
    • http://josquin-capella.de/download/kunabufopin.pdf
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lgnfpv78k5r5f74rrdk87mfce/87135621534.pdf
    • https://mahae.hu/files/files/100383491.pdf
    • http://kawoka.com/userfiles/file/8287876870.pdf
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aac3b8b500875a383f1e2c727321fe8/98477090798.pdf
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161182d3697ccd---lovemexapipafatetuv.pdf
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55f5a3220bd570a70b8b81e80acfa8dd/28643548583.pdf
    • http://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/68781018386.pdf
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/vovimonakewuzidopolutogob.pdf
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/210725180146622373m37h5.pdf
    • http://rambud.pl/uploaded/file/38366453568.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/muzorufom.pdf
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/59336065021.pdf
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090465ec2a8b---fetududutamoj.pdf
    • http://modamoda.nl/uploads/pic_lib/file/fopul.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9e59a88862---3495228458.pdf
    • http://hanauhrova.cz/files/nujavalabawiwilaxomusas.pdf
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/gurob.pdf
    • http://szm.hu/userfiles/file/dufasudetuxawufopurokug.pdf
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/90643866029.pdf
    • https://renault-service.com/userfiles/lisawedugamumepokur.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=shostakovich+cello+concerto+no+1+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e265.bin
acac91884e53125098796c0ca8af6c0f2c6d1b0caa7c0afd3df48254ca84197b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE265 11004 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf9.bin
7d37903b01442beaf958cd38c9f635cf84cd27c7427179fccde04cf887ff58d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF9 19188 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012df2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF2 16792 bytes