Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b732d01e9d69258…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-28 11:23:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: e0d4ba68970d6d1dc0bcbe41265f71ab SHA-1: 8eda935e36913af7c15c8e1961fdc67fb7cfeb8e SHA-256: 4b732d01e9d69258e8c48b00c65c681348c31c7c11a2a4cedc9e7c762f4a137a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bully+2+download+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/85105687835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613749d1dc515---49047820138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m-camper.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52807857594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gpaci.org.br/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34064376563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://net-work.cz/data/file/jumopivuxokosovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/vizisuwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10508091748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silverbirdmarketing.com/pages/images/file/nidubexeset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/4907596916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/16608768196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fguln40ao00i6fleo7crhpsmc/45056374573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54635929887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/dijixatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitchensofdiablo.com/upload/file/77764444161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arslanemlak.com/E/file/In PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309f41a91ef---8231948283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161442c82e7433---xizelorafapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durgabas.coop.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76216958387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/fipefumuzetijakerit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161483c76352a6---91149955328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/67461295533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitroc.com/userfiles/file/20355723697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rheinfurth.de/userfiles/file/35196909636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quimicasorocolor.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73028013073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/055525168b69ecc32ab524bf6a5839bd/88827772986.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_off0000b4e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4E4 15372 bytes
SHA-256: bf8bd82b227fbac7148a831f58110fe6b4be70be6bc62868ae7b3968f6ee6c2e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3CB 10360 bytes
SHA-256: dae479c6202c869a3d2bd9b75af74493a705f9ade69547979fd63bb0f5a9accd