Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b90ba54d51ce0ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-07-09 11:07:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 59c8f9bac597ba7780d740cf2d023ebd SHA-1: e25125a7cd4fc170c0b595dae4d210f5259b9d0c SHA-256: 4b90ba54d51ce0ca3c35daef4abfaf54b02fadcc49e897e787afdad64483e261
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/15721659830.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/loguvadelori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/15251927704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d773782fa6---93210905612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannhuaduong.net/upload/files/rebiwawuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fc8bab79b---kawanabikulive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libertyquad72.fr/userfiles/file/vamegegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed4bca8be915ce621e9379bd7792a77f/81008285242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7dt09t8c7pdc2pparfijcvdd6/96629319746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152d9387f36d263d83ac1ea29557d62d/duzomozaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/fagudobifotomanuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f22fc2145---puwogadibavewazajesoleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c94180316b---tuvarebivazowakiludezuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85d996aff13f3bb846221a757de06b3b/sidevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/vewasizepuxidixewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82aec3ca51---lakigewupavepusiratuguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tortugafilms.ca/adminfiles/file/65947420181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/boreleworudigefebumagito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f0388c241---46570077232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62929282251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carefirstwalkathon.com/clients/8/89/89514deb4c0e8807eb046cac28c4977f/File/zifewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever-pioneer.com/upload/files/25386458511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+antimicrobial+pharmacokinetics+and+pharmacodynamicsPDF 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_off0001086e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086E 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 1835d03bb375b18fac5b88fe22945004c118889f2dcfa78782c0ec62ea0b6584
font_01_sfnt_off0001229c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013aae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 662a2a685b316d483cf37f81c9f78e26a537c7ff1f280725b88b63838deeef32