Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b6238f38f2ce511…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 10:48:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e9c075195db8a7718c71d86f0175e21e SHA-1: b328261f601c66e71bd9a449054bd13160cae79c SHA-256: 4b6238f38f2ce51108b7b71c42bd4f202a3d8c898942981df5e5e44694eac524
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and malware distribution lure. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document's content likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering tactic to facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/buduwewutilopesufubifod.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b1da23d95---22254710617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de0ac41ea81---dabiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/984ec3295f1bc834c7086b6f5f90b613/79028260764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalrep.com/userfiles/files/sikokugeforezabarajuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2kt112jvd2lij54ah2gfck8rm5/wikosotisekuzuzipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0711e51150c0c638f5a95f7ac89d60/tutaxakizuwawawitosajede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bo4c7unndggnpekv34b3fjqk0/43328803051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a49809e6ca02ecefe17c05be4bbcbe0/55100002095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073af3e2d811---11587715089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/82085158477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.comfile/73049001346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fbietqa0mu8pfi0btp3sbsqgd/kezekuvawefidavovumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/nerigajebavofetove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24cdbfd24837d71151e6981492286456/95001158780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e0819225ef78b7ba88050b9cbf4c8af/dikulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/linamukorozufavozalel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1e653244b---23819728979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/ridakavanuvogekofanexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--mgbaf4adbs1bd2i.net/upload/ckfinder/files/nenerusaruniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/sutetejibofexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095789d2c848---wazezekimulegijemereri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf40ab2e79---sadedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e55165924b---duvesetuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed8a4adef7a68f023c71d4b534b8671/7638358546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tragadsonisurat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedanejurolafinejiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c7d5735be1f9218c15612f88f81e1f7/tezotateseguxuzubefano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=greatness+is+upon+you+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000f401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF401 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C18 10832 bytes
SHA-256: fad0a24cf6e1cd3ee8c18129f107fab0f21cd354d661b46b869ee923d5f1eb59
font_02_sfnt_off00012545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12545 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 14fdb5d4ab91afdda48dca73bec37d99ef1c0aaeffd7b9bb0b8e3b1b86cd162c