Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b473b428460a534…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-19 04:21:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0342a660d8564bd950e8f6c944d68983 SHA-1: 9efabd7f585f921b84d8e0877f8e556fbb9cffc5 SHA-256: 4b473b428460a534f2a2cdc79f41c46879cf7cd21c1aa696843743d36d566d83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document's structure as a link farm suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=photosynthesis+and+cellular+respiration+worksheet+answers+multiple+choice PDF link annotation
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/ziviwikubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/3001043407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/37075877282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureatkk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kifugatudoxaniselewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ce5e8985d74d506bec7f41b005fe041/1482279774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4440ee89962b98e5e70322142947224f/54176919583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35ac008bd5dd6a14c0f32952233837c5/45377473405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b9acmmqkpqvhf6pv9ppgurnd7/gefovebozenujixunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coming-c.com/userfiles/file/98921647095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d94660d4fc841470ad00bdf2dac9bf6/biribis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33775267897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d09cd508bc8687b20b1624e3d2d8ca3/moweneji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc983502c07b82bd760162c669172907/vetoniwuwibobogolan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/donedanubinogowitimobavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cab492876---82093930544.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_off0000db80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB80 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 7592fc5b6fb9d9bfa05917e908d7802a11eb1e978d688eca53f737730fc2c7d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF590 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010da2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA2 16676 bytes
SHA-256: a24ef848d758404cf212659a348ccf5ab60635c18859f4819ea08fd78bcffc18