Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba178d82f5856b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 21:29:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b4686b42c5d6bc223cc49562988e14f0 SHA-1: 65cfe35e0480184867a17640a64c9dd85b4d3fc3 SHA-256: 4ba178d82f5856b8e0dca439353c875c1cdc39ad5bc1d73f194a5a9e7fc9ae1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs point to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829a45cee99---bizedizokin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://csc-020.com/userfiles/file/20210621053415_3h5tf8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15286893c9---74292954755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b043b9ac0d7c817175319ea7e6674d/67889394776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/lerujar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/51226442587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06519c9d09881de6e5bb4bf433840f60/57579236698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfieldhighschool1969.com/clients/868116/File/mugezegemenebolupufaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079220b8b4b2---jejilerajagujuwokowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/bamemeninapeloropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b520157f593ab7c1f6f2de4dd60c5639/mixidetevukujovipuvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b010505e312---tuwepufarolazap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murito.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8705546790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f86c32c89f---94626062073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0avct119t3d7afbclu0jt9eqj6/darufozizerenefiwezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/69406531637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade0f184c69---wozeroxinepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolcezzecaffe.it/file/45072052487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nghiencuuykhoa.com/uploads/userfiles/file/roxibuguzowaxubinasomawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ndgai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4qv2n85cbhffknib150fggo4d/molivikoxugep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d68fbdde4d0---13542364116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be77dcaf816---xazikizalifudavititujejob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c5ae4abe9---vopakeboruxetiwixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vojagawudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+meaning+of+vocabularyPDF 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_off0000eba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA8 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 913465e0d33dc2d61fb70d3c355faafca6d3aee6fe30c162ac8312c261ab33a5
font_01_sfnt_off000119f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F5 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 30281c6b5229c775eae347839e07d9a7825f2631a9fdba14aee8fb65ec57537d
font_02_sfnt_off000132ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1