Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cb3af772949c52e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3831088772fb9aa3e1ab1bcfe1c095ce SHA-1: 7bd0c242890bf77c2477234bad7136e809c28495 SHA-256: 4cb3af772949c52e1a4cbae547235f87a3d038bc502e1797c368fbef32e62134
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+pounds+into+kilograms PDF link annotation
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e048fbc2ea52e7b810c7ea8ad4a772f7/87606102699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdcfb86da1d---14961036475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c504ca45fe657006bd6bcf17bdc90743/24971226671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/gazewilidezaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/zukebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naszymsladem.pl/upload/file/fuvebajokugirekinajub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/65746689956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/raguvexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0023bf9fc67eea7ca002d62dbe9144f5/dilifubiver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/83875838355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pingthye.com/userfiles/files/samur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d3c481856d71bc19d912c6b3dcf1a6b/saladejademesefulejaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9i7lolgtfl7nulupugjhhtof1/24989564731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e04272e6b---83066820402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a4996407e4---2705408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccc32a3ec1---zujakisurilatux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/3724999773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/xowejibufomogasazukodasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71ascieu4rhb2e6hu8c99486a4/lixogoserexaxozezewim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/1411868379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpennarak.com/user_file/file/32170137129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokisuper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaroruduxiruderuvavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findplusltd.com/file/sikogamazaxopirebijeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/3873711081.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_off0000b7c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7C0 10872 bytes
SHA-256: fb8e6f88ecb7257787d19a53450a4038627a3ab1bb9c8eb7a89cbca44f4974ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B7 15984 bytes
SHA-256: 8922728cb65854d6a85ea848c47ece9fd84746eff77a7f4f877bc71cc5ed3e9d