Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b3438caf295e7d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 14:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 22db68e3b37989a1e1a416078c266339 SHA-1: 4e4af377006672babf3b1e9b1f2afa35db28ccea SHA-256: 4b3438caf295e7d89dafffc992273640c4fefc558192b3213f2ab03f0c9b0dd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF structure itself appears to be a lure, likely intended to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into downloading further payloads.

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://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a7d4919ecab95582ba7c68f41b010b/24325037431.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d7dad18024---fobaporofijipokijufep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9541a6686d---bixurewevaguliwoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/mumoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ecaaf01f1---kesuwasovedagafivurasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f713151ce46662c3ee9433cf4d81ad5f/23422828822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/xivomakopemaxaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fdaf046254e40b5ca8f4ef5d94f9c3a/2970547000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0a25adc2e---62717837121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hagelkonzept.de/userfiles/file/45425565496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a3bc2f1e9---27898127420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609880139c544---doboderawimodagaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/jezitovotusasijibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/36933801191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/825667727cc46917237c4cd3ffd7de4a/27972740203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schodylux.pl/userfiles/file/vezolufukaburaboral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/20498771822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/ruxeberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dd273891f458464b065825ee5fe09c9/2915803004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51d1b9a8e1---11163405718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://folklorebridge.eu/uploads/pictures/files/60828080118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa9ada35e0103e03baaad8ff842eab7c/gijamipipajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incucinaconalberta.com/userfiles/files/60952244759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scandirent-new.ru/uploads/assets/file/xofokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9d642c1af---95689096989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=vocabulary+in+use+onlinePDF 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_off0000fae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000112f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F7 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 1a1e4898da6b1ddaa970d68feec67686b9edbe2be87175f4bada97d15d06f1d4
font_02_sfnt_off00013e75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E75 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 64e2f613d631413aab9c2abeff35d218c27dd8244b65e3b85c1f14a54eeb9b55