Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4be0cc5a5b4fc48b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

147.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 03:07:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8b1e9e315f5ce2bb962883543f59bdf1 SHA-1: cbff8ba20e01703b936c996ba317cccb24d22000 SHA-256: 4be0cc5a5b4fc48b44d3d0e84810581461b1c175252e79cca060698741d91a83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host and distribute malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing lure or a downloader for a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

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 http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7a4fa0884---mitukifizarimeti.pdf
    • http://reinforcingourheritage.com/clients/0/08/0860c2a235168fe7e4a745c824023bdd/File/kiwupi.pdf
    • http://ux-school.ru/files/files/kutudizafanud.pdf
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd44e24b07023be378ff7abdc18a2566/tonukej.pdf
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/labilabuzutitomug.pdf
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/82763544039.pdf
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/11523930128.pdf
    • http://amdind.com/userfiles/file/borerisujeje.pdf
    • http://dfwsedan.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/numasizuzosunewozi.pdf
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/kezezirujakido.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44b9b0d613---63826796883.pdf
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc35c23be645ffa7feda0c115f09120/kakizofemegijag.pdf
    • http://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/sujupebazevulovisokozoxi.pdf
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ph0q4nvirvqfijesq6jed2u2i6/52825760267.pdf
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j04ru69n9nfc6et42urvpj9v9v/xilofawukedinix.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a279269be21---gavefaj.pdf
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/jujutadiwifipumofogowij.pdf
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2tjb67rjhulfqduiu749nnabr/22934501119.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5bb83d415---96392372972.pdf
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6be6bbd8a---69926495083.pdf
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a58d91e23---wenibi.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/dazorutogag.pdf
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c5c98cc5bc---16309165382.pdf
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/bazaxubibemefilimumasuso.pdf
    • http://whuntex.ru/userfiles/file/93375550076.pdf
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/jisokavuwidemi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=sean+carroll+from+eternity+to+here+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_off0001dfa5.bin
181e7dfd832558f2da4e3ac4e8ef46bde8fdcd982032fe3d979cb2875c9df0d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DFA5 10908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001f8b5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F8B5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000210c7.bin
14bd8171230123475f5676eb416bffd9961b8ebfacb356c77479934340ea0986
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x210C7 17732 bytes