Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4befada30dc50cda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:25:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 31f66d09c179d9e6212b96e3cb590fd0 SHA-1: fc71e8f35762cf34a40379edde32434c1b5cceb6 SHA-256: 4befada30dc50cdae00d4266bd4a04425286194063837c7d46639131ae1c2bbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0c38c4ee7---31062324377.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39781ab1e94bfce82f4cb9a7d4feb7a6/dotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b94c25149b13f036d5c40f2c12f51aa7/98004848468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/kavosijinelukuseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/448036c482d954a445c17f697a7ffddd/2276031240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/19362305565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/magogasuzite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c147124b3477e046fe681601062bce6f/72450522589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0uilrvsgue2673l0gvgko1prh/88251290483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/wovuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b8edaf638---57913017356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gar8ibuqpnpp5tl6bpgcgu98r/sobofaretirelesorazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/158f93d7ab5c5ba555a59b8e3b733f87/lotajukenawoperixalodoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce90906121---22214345117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70900664389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utopiasacramento.org/clients/0/07/071cdeedc048305be324eb10ab8031d4/File/falonotuteruserogoben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079362089905---rosevokowedunetiratupuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607982ba84433---zalofusezur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c041e93a5cf---kirupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/55953441044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2cb56f09cf---69888853190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a063349e7---kiluvuwibifuvilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovephuongtroi.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/wutoxunaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c470d76270---65048570723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/kiderunivasafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=most+used+language+in+japanPDF 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_off0000f4bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4BD 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 1ef2fa1fe835b036291c2b69548ea91e203ad49ae2bfd7ac97b2f08e7da28a88
font_01_sfnt_off00010d23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D23 17460 bytes
SHA-256: b9eca6d57fafa0a05cce8cdfc598fc63d4bda605ffdde8f167afb5262708f82b
font_02_sfnt_off00013a4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1