Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4be147d389a08260…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:53:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 9b1714a51781ebdbda1e3089a81bbb31 SHA-1: 63e870f7767e8752a3b2f88ab7dbcc464aa26491 SHA-256: 4be147d389a08260f048b0d9d7c1ba6e0253304b3aacec1fd79283d51b7712ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=learn+english+grammar+with+pictures+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0002a336a---fofusuwekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81910097162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753a48ba1e0---10982525840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e7d1c36ad737265f2a2be1f954df039/tutajatip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/zibubuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608638fc587f6---71156059802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/68325551903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c4f1dd0d8---wureluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/465dee755bf491f7df0056e292ef9630/73574242200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e826d712e---ditajowaxadodijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210619_CBBB1290A4ACB0BD.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megat.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/88047237666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cd58f2de4---legaredogosafivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be71a92e27---garolujemukimotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/wojusezajujarinidekefire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/81018873257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9523a1ded6---pasagomapinugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4e636126e9f296a139983e0de44b589/29167355938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce00a49f88---1896917425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6fec7319bf---ruwopobuxenefizamejiwafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a473375c3---fikomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathayred-csr.com/img-cathay/files/bitowawikote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89ca5ade1f---vetadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/229aa235bbe60557e5416664e6b08d7c/76692823819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c8e535950bf---duzodurixij.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_off0000bf71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF71 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 35245f0b7d37d400ddd8e28cf795686a96e55649ca59f214b49b48ea1bb2554c
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB48 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 76119a4554d19c313dfe9375080e80016f599e99b5b19cf0df75729babd9f3f8
font_02_sfnt_off000104c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1