Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b3c8a338e664ef5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 13:55:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b4b87dc3ea78f74b089d30a3ef238217 SHA-1: 5a23b7fc0cddba903c29e00bfa43cc7c714ca821 SHA-256: 4b3c8a338e664ef5d5a19d487fbba71d64bb68d40b49e54b5b8f6c3df3b57143
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as a phishing lure due to its small size and image-heavy content, typical of a screenshot designed to hide clickable links. Multiple heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a delivery mechanism for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 68 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amino+acid+to+codon+converter PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snh4im8h2ruaf5ota30bibninb/zolelilitetijiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/32971693149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/ratotidunudifetuzafoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branonperformance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogazufugiralabujokipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/danafudedijipubomiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/97763044835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99527755690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/56113687172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.kr/new/upload/board/files/53126884519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volpatoebrum.com.br/_common/admin/scripts/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/88091507481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egc.ecrom.work/syo/files/jibejukumuxometevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavaszitura.eu/userfiles/files/xawamiwudujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beverly.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/kesugawukawebaviwovij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/bakoxuvegevepepeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soskuwait.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/mozozatabutisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/xulesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141041e7929f---kidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380a2e95263---batakab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613005686571c---11959506579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f742578229---39449895856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/xujasizupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sicurezzaips.it/uploads/file/34753760374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmakler.org/userfiles/file/josexeguvigufikikotatola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/rabak.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_off0000b291.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB291 14132 bytes
SHA-256: 80b463c5059ee4c5a1dae51cd9535496b5f3f2bd2e56eb6f6a0cb9091151845b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD555 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6C 10364 bytes
SHA-256: b469b33bf841b78abeed29f754df2dfe1873b216b8e755ee8ee952e1e36fa9a7