Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b785f81a6317be1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-06-12 16:02:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f381dff4a10645fd7126e01396f56fbc SHA-1: 651abc284b90102c6922b4d5f9bca17abae3d499 SHA-256: 4b785f81a6317be12bdab737bd990b2db84e161b917028bb2be02e778f59d246
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Harry Potter' and 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a potential attempt to disguise malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+3+forbidden+spells+in+harry+potter PDF link annotation
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96b216e6ea6acff6a0f1464ee74cbcb2/pusalafogenupagofataf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075846c0b4e4---16568925875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b5c073c11ae6cd00c1ee76623159012/sasigotuwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/39458018451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/zefukusib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.foundationofhope.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cbb2b330e7---sobatevokiwotawotupabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/20882074826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c21ec5e37---83520749916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/pibitufisadidanabaxepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2185d1f21---fimamezulivamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaa71c062bfcaa1e6a62c4875725918a/liligilezujusotutufuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d309760db94747584707c15afadfcdbe/58251129789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blbr365.com/userfiles/file/1622904943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a90315015---farakokuzijiloxesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ffdc7215aedaee030a51bce9263b24c/32506220622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ea06459ac43bd5bd454d56f6d7cc69d/nuluven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/52908970922.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED26 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 0d6189542c82a1524fb7d7241c6b648972680357e04f4542d69a4ed187162f23
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC9 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 1b1b3ba1844ac17bd8853535ec0c047de476eca4d4bd79a9f63f4e31a332cf97