Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b3ca5e7993c7363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-30 16:05:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5d33eae33f11d0d8869e40a23b1c62fe SHA-1: 354acba11e3aac5672734f5279b34058f11fd4ad SHA-256: 4b3ca5e7993c7363c831ab8c88cfb1119f4666c44567c672cbdec4d92531120e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/bojanu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goergenpainting.com/clients/0/0d/0d1038892961fdbf96b6a8e7e8daca8f/File/6950938836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xeboxevateduwemoraxowimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d55569879c1---11388308728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/94757322866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh4cpk7o7m9l65j2n0ffrcfp22/zegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesmn.org/clients/17773/File/92125219204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/49552120408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830d8643ea9---jotubowawusumevezulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c48363239e---39201721664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4c1068e9c---digevefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/vofuwulugukab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/vukujobevovutofiwukeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/31546834792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/81694308100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/zoxaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/12926314961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d3e9973ed7---32741485502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/verabufevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/58309307131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cp3d62rtsi1h1j61419uass9o3/65189752732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/30002858475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057829e34c02db77a703c5fe560a63cd/sibegesenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13741783206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyuco.com/uploadfile/files/20210816_115112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab63aab97e8---mebusuxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=impedance+to+admittancePDF 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_off0000e7cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CB 19420 bytes
SHA-256: 53f2db503e700cbbc12766d12f70facf4ff11962978c5582f98cb878fc18f5ef
font_01_sfnt_off00011b3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B3A 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 8686170340a8a0e80c5c4fca2473534df692b1be4837ae526c574a1139ffc3e4
font_02_sfnt_off0001326b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1