Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bae0f4d3b188519…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:02:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6aa8646a913702b576efbeebe841d58c SHA-1: 40879728eaf68ab2b912bc50b76621a003a1fa25 SHA-256: 4bae0f4d3b1885196e32683edfc29007526a7fd2b477ba8df86975778070e558
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to lure users into phishing scams or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mfrs+9+financial+instruments+pdf
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hbuqa7lm6jpq7hl7lutrm3bpj/nuviduradorirabex.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb81ae715e---33861919478.pdf
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cfbf083034---rasugezi.pdf
    • http://banquat.com/userfiles/files/14440971138.pdf
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/xeritem.pdf
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hldl2j0766jjagp71qjuijgfrq/77138488219.pdf
    • https://murten-hotel.ch/userfiles/files/91971409729.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/39730720040.pdf
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858eed8c10a---8924642358.pdf
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr864ncbn5qhvlvceo5le4s3s4/sigobagu.pdf
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/11026960041.pdf
    • http://fbchitchcock.org/clients/8/8b/8bdff38a390027835eb24981312b950c/File/vevaximodumone.pdf
    • http://aptatravel.com/clients/4/48/489dad2d2d8436d4c085fc0ccdc2d1b3/File/fadutuxenu.pdf
    • http://lyonsmcafeereunion.com/clients/a/ab/ab8eb7fa8d7cf94b91f67e7e346c80ed/File/nejuzix.pdf
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985df6b74cc---fenimowafezobu.pdf
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b05a0ec336fe3f01f2b547cef22ae0bc/24166423225.pdf
    • http://acutecardio.ru/sadm_files/60233295911.pdf
    • https://klcconsulting.eu/klc/file/56793966698.pdf
    • http://easy-sleep24.de/shop/images/editorfiles/file/burugo.pdf
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/411d773263fb1d0553c5c74640b29544/loruwimikadusajobobex.pdf
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2er6f67nm75e0jr7e1lhnoj4v1/ziluwolerov.pdf
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69b894d224373b5e70e000d5f99c777f/99321565611.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d25a.bin
8cc65083ec88f9aa97844e3a28105abeca5364cf31d9dbe70cea9ff7c97aae4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD25A 16600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd1a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011531.bin
2ed77fd2a3998b743416e06fccfc88c8c6f36a7becb9a76d47d4f4e124f522a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11531 10924 bytes