Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bb342ea68a634bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 18:57:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0b37a93a37787782faf73288a6fbad32 SHA-1: 3863aa037b16881569eb804a2f136436180190bf SHA-256: 4bb342ea68a634bf32a029c432f9ebab40056c13f4867f20738d67d849e6a84d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, including WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious files or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • 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://china-miyaco.com/img/file/202161502842.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/wuxokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/78920593398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/kewolilezubipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89b1f8cbbe---mufedisimufaradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b471326c0---97982044323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edbcagliari.it/file/39440815372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44effb1f9c40228708f2da0ebfd3e762/94812894882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f7a4f716c4e84e917dc84055c7df86e/gapabud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/82583781948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/84579917076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/36719571967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recrute.fr/files/files/suzusasolifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace17717299---motuxevolufiguboruwibula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents//files/rugabinurabuxifubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6b07cc11f---sakebazuxudowabubevilige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64ef69c17c---97247720670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mppscstudy.com/admin/usercontent/file/wiporapuriwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac65741eef---56729754534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160906fd208291---kusone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c8e8ced7b454722ff29da874b6dbe58/xidoxipozozigepafiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2r0t5f06afg304siuheg4gms4d/sexozotogodixufiwavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/xukodasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607875e9a30f9---pupowerifexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=for+any+enquiryPDF 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_off0000d856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD856 18844 bytes
SHA-256: cd71c954ee462f16b535f4fe9f3b09b1997375c213b1b5037c92243f97a501bf
font_01_sfnt_off00010a2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2B 10128 bytes
SHA-256: a88b38ea5a62863897126841b0c8b8404eb4add7a07efd916e9593f256b5554f
font_02_sfnt_off000120d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1