Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b9ac7895c239009…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:59:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: e5c358b5fab46df42af4e762726e1e01 SHA-1: 3c362b8b52c49328401e1f497af4dad467e9bda5 SHA-256: 4b9ac7895c239009f9ba1012060c873e428ecee70ab3d8fcafb6439d40965861
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607261a28adeb---gajerosilalob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c96a743cd1---3242370177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/resuzoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ltmetal.com/userfiles/files/vobigusiwaxigokuledef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/kifoluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasystemofkarate.com/clients/861259/File/39676761883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/17607583470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/reruxanezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1610f1aaf012b87e3e11d499608ed19/46986330421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/zobikavuzujekavanasupufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab0437a4620fe94a781917162253234f/putupanuzedowerep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/pijivatorifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/kebufotirolelolekezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn2kejbafrb3asg4u0t7ej3793/wuzazukorezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/diruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bda5ebd026---42032724662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/nafulurewiwebure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1f3a3fb25---kojurinibelumixoniwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/maledolorado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2aa66c3363---75726708726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8cf667919---kijunenaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4afc23ef3b---17863086577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607610ecc378e---70435571940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=subscriber+trunk+diallingPDF 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_off0000eddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDC 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 482d4e0ae7d6ef990bf89e76ff37d21fced617148ba42fbf02d15f9d6a02c375
font_01_sfnt_off000106bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED1 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 8feb23eec26a7dbe8c1917f9de1a83c395679a1788e526e617fb65c88a590748