Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b787c40d6651587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:19:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: bc60ed8d313ad9b8d4986a7c4fabe5cd SHA-1: fab73fcf77d3ebfaed5b38b03c6539b9a41f6510 SHA-256: 4b787c40d6651587365fef57b34b0fdfe8aebdb5826e530ca5671dac71c677cc
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests the document is intended to trick users into downloading an archive, for which a password would be provided, likely to bypass security scanning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/516aabee89f743800cc537d12fbb7790/fuvewo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/85044457122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92872462011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/72142937334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd134e9d1c294e87625aa488808747be/feziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/misowanidopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwsalisbury.com/uploads/files/zubowumuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cantinachitarra.it/userfiles/file/kanajudejasunugowaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heldermusic.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37210217497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyhotelsgroup.com/uploaded/files/kusuvuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primariasantana.ro/uploads/file/25130632146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/xejeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d6959fda5---66430346482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29602646770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nanaboruriwawijufigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r561ep5947bhs81dd4jl610nu6/94569808273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/vaxedotazavorarakewaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/73728401430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c2957170e---kekotelosoludawoguson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/luvisuvaposuwerexubuvemot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiosushi.com/uploads/files/zunasimaniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219500d026d---43697720428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec69fe195c---91617294666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1169822d1f9fd3d595556f5639cb4d98/solajisazukenedegitadarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/xubofuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=como+unir+pdf+en+foxitPDF 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_off000125ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013dbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DBD 20452 bytes
SHA-256: f3d020554c27c45627c4d5666dd688f250f7f296403557525ef53a16f5e919cc
font_02_sfnt_off000171f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171F3 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 9cfab8fc16094d3b792712841e3b862789b84a47d9b7c61ba8990651be6e4947