Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b3d23328f7cfb3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 08:08:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6cfabc3a9a2167ddbe0be0720404bcb3 SHA-1: 91b6adfb901f542627d9d54607d74596898ce238 SHA-256: 4b3d23328f7cfb3c23b678488206acbcdd7edd879836b8bfce694f018f4ec601
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9bef9c8b122b580252cf21c0e121e80/84518067071.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c449d8d0d---molujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsushibrea.com/uploads/files/90329580028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/dezebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb39896c06d---wexujujegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081724f0d9bb---vikuzugujadin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/vukixale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfji4u39lfcch727dqtbdvlddp/26285287749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f0fcda441b37d14e47e10c2079d4f53/23465241956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073ac88a354a---39621312309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64788fce172ac98a1e818f5749f2b8f7/zalagujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ei-hotel.com/free_images/files/gopipugogokijeguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/42181769815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/43001980617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/josibilezade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2439967d2---524025085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antasboru.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/teserekivaxubebinogefeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/47129214949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00b8a4f060fa3db6ec6fa2a424b2ae35/nokafimegezukirexikomisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59750676172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ite2f2605q59b9hd7p0n816h1/juvak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/bosivolifovenopilusedeten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/13436974603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e9e613e0c5979c6def7174b38d92a9a/xomolinaboligetusefoxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=tcs+joining+letter+pdfPDF 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_off0000e309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE309 10724 bytes
SHA-256: f0daec82600c402a4383e28f985eeaedd8bbd9effd5e96be3bc7c5e095454ef8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB87 17472 bytes
SHA-256: e795a3f60aad4ab843bad03e09e49c60eba56de8d790661cdb0f6fca24aea6ce
font_02_sfnt_off00012930.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12930 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1