Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b53c5000253be7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: bf03323af6b0e407433e505651474524 SHA-1: 7cdde238761b334743f8b196dd7f9e3391711798 SHA-256: 4b53c5000253be7bdd656085df53a52263c13ca3a60d177316abec0d9a9d6107
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9bsndbnbbdi79qobvi9v15nu4/juwanelitaboxobabatejar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/vepovubonejajofajamunexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26023283654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/42493513327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalanpa.com/images/upload/File/48905234505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevurutokupukazanibuvarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelsenator.com/userimages/fomixafiruvijafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/55601386373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/10015423115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c178354bb4c---9315060954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/vapulijixot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibaco.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35892229676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.cz/upload/72121938575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021052100481873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents//files/7650007394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/siguwakuzilidakinugoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1329016bc---56350294678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c498e7a972a---gonufidifajosalunedisesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/44656037370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/durowafepudukirexovuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/vujatotetajixufox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yas-center.ru/userfiles/file/96862009592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=store+keeping+methods+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_off00010c30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012442.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12442 18444 bytes
SHA-256: f2b4328574afc358a7c352197199463432d0f52c375d70ccf402019cbd2f12ca
font_02_sfnt_off0001537f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1537F 10904 bytes
SHA-256: d4cf512fbe5e7e6cfe85bfdb9c8b8d9f9a65cbc73f0f6b3ed4870a5eb6fa0b6f