Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b7a5ac5f8cd110f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-08-14 10:27:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f43cbfde97df8f7bb70ba31040e4d685 SHA-1: 9502af3bfe4e7e5a923efdbbcf6b4bd1d963ff32 SHA-256: 4b7a5ac5f8cd110f9bf09e0227a4fffefd7204899961c7119e145b7dc08740fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories or other disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the main indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ver+peliculas+online+gratis+en+espa%C3%B1ol+latino+completas+sin+descargar+estrenos PDF link annotation
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073db5fc4f3f---21258733950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/2995147417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/23125575318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/76030405330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26aae67f1f34705f6c565b64f9bf6bf1/33252568671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/texagowuduvado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/10108257050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/149adc0383c524ae309e57ccdd69fd54/93485147559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/felapiwigedas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoomkish.com/basefile/zoomkishcom/files/59063451877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/67964122895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/81906549825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740db5c5bd4---39657809741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/265716533f92778243b47c05a316cb2a/zivejowovinawimiramaroje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vir9ko6q3ki2c489gthq10lbr7/tavoxelomorerix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/32117063150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/wafosiximeranawulejuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/3592080791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gjphc54ld44v18d02r0f7bcp1m/42934660458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/vasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944e97129b2---29135632607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/nufisajetobafemituzutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/40235085959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.com/app/webroot/img/files/zelajuribitewajanawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efcffe8c90---vedipulurikapupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-delighted.com/user_img/files/60596536098.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c5aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC1 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 179ba4e98a268d0c0715347182b54714e30cf2a5e7f5b1407d2687a51e81112d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f73c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73C 3508 bytes
SHA-256: a3bf0b16ca74dd3a1a8c385e7fa721831ed91eb778e7f98a1241eb5c45ebe8ec
font_03_sfnt_off0001050b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050B 16932 bytes
SHA-256: fbe91984ed33a3a6a259ae7e9a186e78d238fdd9e2f79852566f05b2f3833ddc