Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b7941368f1106d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 17:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8ce5d48df17670ba30ff53187e141cce SHA-1: b39f60cab12dfb4ecbaf1e02a95cc8e252c2ef0c SHA-256: 4b7941368f1106d66cbe145f3838ba81c3d33ea5c1ed63ad785b329b77175d27
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing-like lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/jafareveretanurudiwijup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086eb625a582---14148790601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf0d2019ca3690b45e95a0df0d4cfb0/kanodisefifefutolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/29872468395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecbn910bg706o2iddl89tv20o9/diremetanoduwonekaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076c50a3ba7b---55904166327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xistenze.com/files/files/81233177363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/82250654134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/sopasovijosivipemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/490153ade2ee7dda6a9f311aadbaf40c/tuwilamilimogijawix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/28554581808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a3e28d7cb2c35122f8ba85c1b45fe3a/pobitoxupixivekujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/89166821819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65c04a0efa---40886764791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41c102d9dafdb8005420ae73f2aafbbe/nipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/75825286399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb45f4cd9a0---11814891507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-luczak.pl/new/fck_user_files/file/29425230266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/pixixipeduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4e6fa3f2a---levodemolajenogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/nesasuvurulupaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ntse+previous+question+paper+with+answerPDF 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
stream_002_off0000df55.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xDF55 10676 bytes
SHA-256: cda4f1729224081d88caf6cab72da33f17f5db89b13d97e5375b3dfd2ac06424
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010feb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEB 17588 bytes
SHA-256: ed3537f9edc0f074e61b9567ab1ab6bf321319dfeded1b68f9ba958bf0d588d2