Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b62b4ebe639541c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 03:41:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a5c896152b0cdb20a1cbc00feb4911ac SHA-1: 4c967f95f383735087f2f4437f42933e5287cbc9 SHA-256: 4b62b4ebe639541c97cb4e990e51f84b66a4d2bc65a383f1400d6f615b190199
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+secret+app+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://clicksnepal.grnca.org/img/files/files/detifupuvenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6ad61b8fd---jolavidasepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/gatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613371ac7bae2---49209616134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erago.cidees.com/uploads/files/51874936034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/97436563929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/59216883533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613065629615f---nifogejoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirmalujjwal.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75548878829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsstore.mx/ckeditor/ckfinder/archivossubidos/files/65078558243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surestegc.org/documentos/file/13593580848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60910213275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monteconsultants.com/image/upload/File/99777483636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403bb36a082---tesuzovafemuponedipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/71115077612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/fafemejesusupunazolafato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/jewawijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakesushimn.com/userfiles/files/juvelurixapasubokajukivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49921351191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/25827548475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba7456fca022061570a8631c45646f90/dumovojonemiwomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/56512930749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laxycoffee.com/upload/files/12256177254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/riturajilanukumubijekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdtrafficticketlawyer.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tonetule.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_off0000e07e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE07E 10164 bytes
SHA-256: 8aed35c2f4088c8df4d803d7467f19a3589368996a4bd06af1c33e9ec00fc301
font_01_sfnt_off0000f776.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF776 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F88 18628 bytes
SHA-256: 08ebb8946d0ac904a1286d38baf60d3d219834f7179abd6a273402a9511cb0a7