Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b54b32d7e58e301…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-08-18 03:48:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 46c99918b8ce2072a5899a3eb810d226 SHA-1: 38f8b0f54dc3b6ba4dbdf901d291ae1992788a61 SHA-256: 4b54b32d7e58e301106fd4f3f68a8bc5c2ac61c98bd11411983a1e6b06a972e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3d+shapes+properties+worksheet+year+2 PDF link annotation
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/18094452426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/gojetisumanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/zufov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/79844081069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5075f33495---vufara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindspacepsytherapy.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210529184953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/9347192107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102c9dc2e84f---55215571056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trellisdundee.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99d7e5fa7037158eeb85b865b2b157be/zamobulojedixanerefavor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c932879952cb148a041916472bdbd3c0/78440813593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/97584500715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icaalliance.org/filespath/files/20210814104531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa89aba6bf9c628a70a48def157f1bf4/63257019971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9588f2945c---57569103431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sees91f1h3031elo4k1gijv98/76809445567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430205513741864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuvexekananawomewuves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091243419786---webeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ef0def53c---malim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pejugevijotavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/xobidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e87dd3b7730ca44a56379b6a8220d02/pugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/dovodekijobegosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/32572089963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs//files/2991385384.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_off0000f0e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E8 16352 bytes
SHA-256: 00264b3ff247833417a98193def52603bdf7331e7ba0c6b6a129bbca77c43061
font_01_sfnt_off00011afc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013313.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13313 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 24518b342afc8eb6d0ce0112c1967c73fb7884fad9486990a9252b9cd249bfe5

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