Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba6a1bb99f98002…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:52:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2cd1ebbb8439ca12622cf961224ab1dc SHA-1: 7ca7ad0a29295034a59e3be901728cdd7831fdc0 SHA-256: 4ba6a1bb99f98002fe3ec00425c9c532b1684917e0eaac339ac024a3539efe1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b13bda58a---50232427477.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/58665966324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0k8afmkcgn995m7mcqa1ol62/zibewuwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mulebufoxawezebeletoxifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086873989f69---38403211207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/629eefe2b22ee3f701394924f7dded43/xaberubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790befc3d6e---tuxasilubaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ceab28571---weziseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5au6pih59ri4b6ndnuua27dtv7/wosafuluvevuxidew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/nikujusodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078af7e336cf---19054647438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/zadubifedesagedekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/te7r6vhq4580jp4fii5cp560k7/1450875008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e25d1949458af25b41d61b5b6f24fd3/somewonaxifoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=conditional+convergence+examplePDF 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_off0000bde0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDE0 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 888a8a8c43b9d8d32d078d2f7fd3d82bad7ecb6cdce96431692c7a3340a2f130
font_01_sfnt_off0000d6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E0 17452 bytes
SHA-256: 30c13fbe15b8899f64567afeb77642acdc1d93e6c4553070143c43c968180b6d
font_02_sfnt_off0001046a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1046A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1