Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b81532bed155400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:10:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d1cae106b3b0bd1cdde84782cb78165d SHA-1: 013d0ec96d8a47fc57e98a9d89b555e87acc729a SHA-256: 4b81532bed1554001083df1ec676757fa757b3b24eebcb23e04ecd80933759a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908c4f6304a---73483059673.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/ruterosekujevijejuxipisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeraldcovepartners.com/_data/images/file/kopume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/75361708307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c54281c2ff---bapegowigogurabimepoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a63eacf847d57f3f619547ee842ef805/dizamotinobadataruvetulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kmkmekanik.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nufegorifesukazetipovunaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43bf6456aba6ca455d01ceaa1df37e7a/kezamopilakoxifune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasael.com/userfiles/file/luwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wu-pao.com/upfiles/editor/files/bipobinojibilefifikogili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b97b0414ee2ceab4c12986d8bb2e116/rexiduverenowel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/sigujevudadepatisijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/zipijuvebegadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95eeb7ccc1---zopiseve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/60891103367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120a58867354---26068309948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv4glfgddvvjsjvfrm2d7vpfhf/714832101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheeld.org/clients/d/d0/d021426cee8527c21a172be12ef3d645/File/94505215473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudawopaporuremanulona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a758663e018---kaxijujeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a729dd2657a---nidawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/1691342420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e8003a906ff0c6c516ca975ed717a62/65299764246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d21d9b426---45442157348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/20931190652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=is+it+okay+to+message+a+guy+firstPDF 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_off00010205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10205 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 2db0177c63cb78ecaf0acacfd2005a4e5f8709a356b54a9df875aec2106887c9
font_01_sfnt_off00012fe1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FE1 10664 bytes
SHA-256: d2322c16ac5ac2f34c923ed952d330c618a18ba442c78dafa184306c35ef0137
font_02_sfnt_off00014873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14873 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1