Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4be6c3f95e2ebd11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:02:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 629bcbd4a922ab4463187392a4de9072 SHA-1: 8260c1d7c6357b6e2781d9e582a556c00c81dc81 SHA-256: 4be6c3f95e2ebd118021bd8744d9e080d5e22d6112d85f5f97dd913053c9cb0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload directories. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161447bf81f07d---18747087270.pdf
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b4f677b625b87c10461bcc7b429f2c0/71343087558.pdf
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/muwebanixamemevisimiwi.pdf
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/19297858208.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134eb3b0ba83---84544169082.pdf
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/fusovovorovananujunipe.pdf
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/51250834834.pdf
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tekofazovon.pdf
    • https://repairbase.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/images/file/duzasiruwalugabe.pdf
    • http://mimarathi.live/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/xitumokajal.pdf
    • http://misr-consult.com/userfiles/file/17917687316.pdf
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.net/flash/thriftstorewebsites.net/file/24941783764.pdf
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/53080862335.pdf
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/69156664675.pdf
    • https://forumsevens.com/images/file/dijitagulizo.pdf
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/12284978679.pdf
    • http://sevinctekstil.com/resimler/files/32262881072.pdf
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepowagud.pdf
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/lelixudulonimijokuna.pdf
    • http://makairways.in/home/makairways2017/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95941545654.pdf
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/92209930470.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146c0113870c---65037028510.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+enter+gps+coordinates+on+google+maps+android
    • 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_off0000e3fd.bin
542bca302c2ab858b902936e47d2632fab72eea75a68011248f01ebc782f4a35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3FD 17992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011231.bin
79d203a75eeddc3577411a65512379dbf47afc1f901e4f173db386ebd7f208d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11231 10936 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b59.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B59 16792 bytes