Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b62b283b09a2682…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:57:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2576b7686ebfe07ce44b7c19bcc5027e SHA-1: cdaf272282ba7efdf356376d298ff0ca5876597e SHA-256: 4b62b283b09a26823fa3e1ef35a34d20c1921fe2a4f97b1ac6f279b500a09110
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ijqbqr1m1inqumgor6smeh5e4/fisowededug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9f42035aaa02802ca2622ef71b125ac/10225795757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c214cae26---bipobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/29415299832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/najuvoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smitheaster.org/clients/861344/File/zivonesakeditosegen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d35db7c703---fejetozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nobody-films.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/pukiwosogar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/kotibanititowikilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764a9967e27---juvepulegevafevofufaxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a738b93d3157f356448f09385ca21ba/22717965918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/vutasizusizarazupivar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/23702103242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/2786004246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunpower.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motedefazaximezowefip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4c0677df7---diralojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32f4218508809294e270c4e8f9c1cd01/ludugukudisoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wuvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6qhdvrvlbvfi6376mc980ge5m0/18823595670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150116_030047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/43001334204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g87ie46lllj1to7vmibm4vddi3/kibekibutuwavegibogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d21ae261fc---fefeforuduvolulasegitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fd1a23e12e---62752062899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=fablehaven+book+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_off00010cdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDC 18896 bytes
SHA-256: d94f1a9819b3a3cc48568b18afaebd5a22039efad1ecb8a67be336c80767fa6b
font_01_sfnt_off00013e11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15628 10412 bytes
SHA-256: 009b1404f281f650d4346e0ee269cd35d79e32362f92767622765615af5e0a7f