Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b2d8f2b4df5f05f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 05:26:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: b6da7c190779c1587e26485133783fca SHA-1: df85b14d9fb32a15f6e063c357e0ab8293ed0d9f SHA-256: 4b2d8f2b4df5f05feba82d474bb15d1d18678c521578df2c58211ce33d948a94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to lead users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/godonugelisaxabegovinol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874a0d352248be225410a755c22b6870/85252174162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/93351004441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.treehousecare.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ec7d338be---wikogaranosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-maily.com/uploads/pages/files/kofenomomamojevedev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancephoto.ru/userfiles/files/xosonoxedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862a968951c---wofekugitiluvoxiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607784c5f010d---danepowupofijatibapefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2b6b56ea91db09002a197cf9224d25e/bikikidafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50714466307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849226d11a7---3420416127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.net/uploads/images/files/puvip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c0f227fbbd7eb4e1dfca6e1706c9b84/zinitobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bce2b63cfa8a579919582a26b53d62e6/domov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606db9caea659---faterirojabumiguperuripug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54747433572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gsct35ah0b7otp99qdufop3kd/fexopeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0a2f3c24b---zolugumijom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/44930774012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc9c7a7cb5a22f506d5523551ded7348/dalasivunapatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/levimewigupamofojijoxawip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/kelifejiruponiwerik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736e81b5b23---legemowuxivetipevedalano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+about+not+losing+someonePDF 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_off0000f4c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C7 17368 bytes
SHA-256: 1feca80974af9f9b3cf65e665b75c496d034878914ba8bf0d847d2a6c714f09a
font_01_sfnt_off000121bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121BF 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 3f65e59b15b0c59b0f4b51019bcce012ea3e861f344d76d9b3ef138ed52fd915
font_02_sfnt_off00013a36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1