Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba2a680b019ae9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-06-14 09:47:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 8f2b4286ddb7b49bfb25425bde44db38 SHA-1: 5f1e9672517f94140c0807ffcde5f10ddf7c3dd6 SHA-256: 4ba2a680b019ae9f93bd88b5e20ba9dea56f583baaa47730c3ab4a7673d9485a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a likely attempt to lead users to a compromised resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+churros+in+mexico+city PDF link annotation
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608091dd712bb---faxelalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kammerpop.de/files/file/22898420618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d17a864bda---fizimikugekalodinokodagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regimhotelierbucuresti.com/images/userfiles/vevafiregalawadamefapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1b77b5d0d7ece122a815dbe12705b8b/vufabogep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34fdf645fad4302af3316aa7194733fd/40904537925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/nosefobalogupavawobulimar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/678671966eb2a1a17b3b1c056d8d7206/76286328823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca4abkpov5aobs04vdmhvulfp0/kigesijuwasunobeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb08214755---zudedazesojasoliru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bca5a4ecb99---jinar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e376839a22---dibuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851427ab64d---61808687964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b3e8a37b0---giraxufujatimifedulozog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8c84bb5d3---mazezimujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE741 5016 bytes
SHA-256: 2939367acbe53969243276dbdd3829b6e70a25417014855cc55caf088e5a1c78
font_01_sfnt_off0000f839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF839 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 55da4938920447a3f4c21c6b48e49b89373e3b76c0cd1b89cd09839d7dc729cb