Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bb0564b7b5e5e29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 21:29:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 520cbc6c3a0818e62b37e049dbc053d4 SHA-1: 63e750a67920f8ff5ea9be532accef62051bc65f SHA-256: 4bb0564b7b5e5e29f63e0e3081127e0905da2e29fa9cec7067b8e2603ced8f10
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded JavaScript stream and numerous external URIs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=goals+fitness+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136db3a2c25e---58872585598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallncart.com/userfiles/files/95850615044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solar-makernavi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65485396149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/magorotafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/rupubajuvomori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/9153897868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosvanbeek.nl/mindcms/js/ckf/userfiles/files/gogabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/28018355279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles/file/31684531740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://client.diffuse.info/files/36497176348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dzerzhinskij.ru/upload_picture/file/28894607203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/56072924754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dennismaloney.ca/upload/editor/file/demip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianina.dk/upload/file/28604522281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e5a348843a358cef097f8d859435cf9/fuxojusizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e89645b58a---28733961609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/36436065968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/dukepogivevupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/234075645327398623cca20493e68395/13373444080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-biyoute.com/d/files/73916857603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuguchair.com/upfolder/e/files/20210917085033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/77224660906.pdfIn 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://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_off0000cc4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4F 21580 bytes
SHA-256: d962b5abe0ac1bc8c648547b551992bb89c27e0b88e1c0a8a328661656fdacf0
font_01_sfnt_off000103c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103C4 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 4061263f953bcd0762e117a37120dfedfd7181150bbd5d99606a05779005a56e
font_02_sfnt_off00011b64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1