Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bb19ef4f4119327…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:04:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 520d195c7d0daa354a970dc88b41aa08 SHA-1: 4748fa203420ff4a40b6480603ebbe6258b7ce2d SHA-256: 4bb19ef4f41193276ce708bc8e4bca8f24c15c50849085933e6991d0d2b73e09
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm for SEO poisoning. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to download malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pereplanirovkaoblast.ru/pict/file/notivimubeva.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69127d0ac491de0afedd2ced3778e211/dutugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01b046415e55e1d565a08fb4d0cb91dc/mikitiwatazukifijaput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebdf8949f36f7412d76b0af7673ff62d/17752707997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundimjob.at/images/content/files/gomekabuwiluxesixerora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0qdov9bpgjmqeda6q9aj1em8/rubagepuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/38997033280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4639ae0b4---75741262925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ntweac.edu.hk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/digukutise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubaimotorcycletours.com/uploaded_images/files/83938163096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntrc.biz/clients/f/f0/f0759d16aca5b3dfc9163ee994587b7f/File/2400132491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/22420907446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksusu.com/upload/files/taletozedidorud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e42e13ede6---82597033072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essaidafm.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/46541374718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8623364270320415fb25dd49533a6d46/63992313360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cdc9eeb6b8---92577364734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaomamma.hu/editor_up/21006923411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7ea19850b8ecc5148eb6619420c6e7/memawosokitugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/jukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/97305224456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fondationmonetoile.org/clients/0/0e/0ecfe6182781ff486fe5156d2e85c11d/File/67880768709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/vilukenugot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021072401425780554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinesupplier.cn/data/product/file/2021826_13390_886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=automation+studio+tutorial+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_off0000dcae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C0 17464 bytes
SHA-256: a9cbbfdc0e5d0ee281f3d07dbce8429cacba7b35aa356d5e64e3670ef8f5d8f1
font_02_sfnt_off00012224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12224 10608 bytes
SHA-256: b4035e33185f94ce9e0f8f00b8339fc375e4fe9bb783fedfc5061f7a7635cbee