Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bab8440314777fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:31:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 35437eb447ab20f91c76c0bc8e30e8b0 SHA-1: c102d5b52b8c9c44adc056b2b546fb5a7e18ba28 SHA-256: 4bab8440314777fb55814cf79418b4e04a27b78a43f20a1fcd40e881bf237bf4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and a potential phishing or trojan distribution point. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to download further payloads or visit phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://placc.info/up_image/6142013019.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/vulimuxovirexesuboxamagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/78305504025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942c69dae87---rilodejuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca4ed3e017---98954862591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac88a4c620---20049621517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/50487649411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fireprovietnam.net/luutru/files/xamexuwasoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd3e7c332a---xalixedibexerupinug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba03dc8e31---70843978753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/15432153990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/mapoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa0025d1306---7916663064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprintfactoryvietnam.com/uploads/files/lorixaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goacetours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10965855076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ace0eed35d---21367318249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tapestry.cz/images/file/files/1150763618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95f78e402c---tajizajojexalubimagimopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instalater-macecek.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jolalibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/61520762420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0096408001628324974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/36116249181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/rexavojedajatinoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/23108457442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=california+freeway+map+pdfPDF 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_off0000e868.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE868 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001007f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007F 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 9338ffc345a31e993dba89050363332545c690b3aa76d19de7ec3eb5ff98a30c
font_02_sfnt_off000118c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118C4 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 33d1328464cf58896e49b6b9c1ce62187ff392fda27478bee30dcbc8f93b2686