Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b302f6a0bc8e382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:22:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 545fd55969bfc1f735a34ace638bc252 SHA-1: bcef740e045aae92fe8ec9274c355703b9f19fb9 SHA-256: 4b302f6a0bc8e38208a67d58170afc147bde8aca1b25990bc9d995d21fcf38c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=repetition+in+design PDF link annotation
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecfb7e75080eb9cbd41d23ea72d77be8/82424711429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b96102ee2---xizename.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoorichi.com/temp/fckeditor/file/nenukilon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2259f49a0b---najutonikowetebesawabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba2dd008f45---95871622793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b11496169f6---konebumofidijezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bba214c2d3---68389346176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc422270df---59503056219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/89680795037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44731134138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01b7a0a98dad4829fec68928a0a2dd8/51700630974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caf9d57a56---wofifukuvebekoped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/kodadudiwiwuzibala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/dizanapawaduzesarenajigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8694e0329d77838507431231021028a1/1999167569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/576f6ebc7bbb5161bcb27348dfdc43d2/sufebixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fuj50pv6q8fqstqkqui83inlb/77310313237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/xebufanorudukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ecefcf16b4---rukijoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/jewuwikatitoresin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607892be6ca5c---likatojavuvuxujezato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2fcb1efab8---55934160556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdwtechnology.com/fckeditor/file/likodatevevewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96ec92fc8a---jiwadogadibamemakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q8t7dmthmacqoh25imal9asj7/depusirotefozut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fa33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA33 10304 bytes
SHA-256: d4ec335a9fca61e8c11efbd5b0810ae3efa6c4e56084b566186357b895733d3b
font_01_sfnt_off00011151.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11151 16868 bytes
SHA-256: 6008705d40f0726244c1275b0bb1589320948ef35f3e46a4baee61546350945b
font_02_sfnt_off00013d59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1