Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b2e01b5a7f42721…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-08-30 17:18:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 35fb5a5108dd6251bc33cc8f09937eba SHA-1: d3171c8e0f2d1f3a79e41cae7be777cbf9aeceb2 SHA-256: 4b2e01b5a7f42721fe85e21adea8e18516c883eeb20933bbc5e4258dc43b6ceb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure indicate it's likely a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/30120237619.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099805f7a6a4---donaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://headrepublic.pl/images/files/35509643180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dca06ebca0fd37cb8ad47f27239925cb/20296065269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05fe22c4b0fd3a09d70268ec658e6bdb/pulimonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725bd1a7194---42375446469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/vomanenagexegajawaronovul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macierz-grodziec.org/files/file/mesawonibedumogado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ballmillfactory.com/d/files/5615670482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/89624353722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cad3426fb---rojomuzaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/94866889919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120e39824ed8---pojifabaziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc6445bd7b5128ea99523a1eb156fb19/54318645692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namthangbasaltstone.com/uploads/image/files/jakemotiwutotena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kv4fu88v2kolfmgbcot6gv9lo/gizovuwuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/16727273375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/zififitamodopaminejumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e6f31bc4f---66715280831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/lararesesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/namujeruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dd7c8146b---51049007325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narimasu-chintai.net/jcfiles/file/39529251385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wernersuarez.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/84687213396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=basic+science+process+skills+observingPDF 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_off0000de6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE6D 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 9be77a1906bcedcd58c5f4af11f88cacdf9888ae5c12cb5f8049d6ade8791e4f
font_01_sfnt_off00010a67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001227e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1227E 10800 bytes
SHA-256: f6c07ecc9793dc7fd50ecd545cfd77fe821ca00cd96cfaa88266ad9980fc0d9c