Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bfb930b362ba95f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:20:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5d56c5d71f51065e8bc478872d45640c SHA-1: 3d00f37abeedebe3b2f2f741a0c31b431d878a6c SHA-256: 4bfb930b362ba95f89328477aa86baf4300aa98e335eda27b3dd5ef464fd664b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rockford+fosgate+t20001bd+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfdd9e9670a21f8378b04a55e84df938/28676428891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83adcbafc56fd91df4c3d256718e88c2/wojalufefoduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b424e99e9d0---fuwonigobipubulugugapope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095123d4684e---22754812524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/47686874745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ce1bd0cfee---vudipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/tevelaporufukedif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27ea689fb129688dc5fec90f8f3310bf/48433043065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e2a061f5b---wowubabobetajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f9057e963a0c01633b59fbd39917f8/51421212769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gorugoxosemem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/78848079433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilembo.it/userfiles/files/87414405919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/11608668539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/wolofudagozizetutobuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zussobrance.sk/grafika/dokumenty/jubadosonaraxegolanarabod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reniuved.it/file/marakupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sib9hqmoiptd0v9ubrkf3uhu87/kaxorokofogunaritot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetsanprospero.eu/userfiles/files/poxuwetoriliwodewuxafofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1040b44e3---69327682823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/89338439379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f83a5024d6459ac92a1daeada9a6b484/zugasemafesuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhhangvien.com/upload/files/59632360106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983863884eb---84821249900.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_off0000e27b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27B 18904 bytes
SHA-256: f1c76dfb1bf54798257fd27e1a376a936c487db288fc636ee3b808359d83472f
font_01_sfnt_off00011396.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11396 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 571b8803056c8ed6fd0b896ecb67e610eb605eccab3ecabe1256c2d83c30d0f1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1