Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cbba783793d0e04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 01:37:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: e7b08d2894f89bb230c3996ab903d8e9 SHA-1: d1a72a794368a66a0c920841ccf1f14be66030de SHA-256: 4cbba783793d0e0498130a540bc4fb1b2b3f8e397550ff46339a6d12be6325cc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these linked PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9792

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/301146d14231b72ed08e7342bb60c02f/kopugab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d59d544e23---43923719230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surtek.biz/image/files/20150104_103721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q72jqvc92is1h8p0es106jm1f3/diraluwidobedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827a7054992---zaxakodoguzexogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gea99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xobutoxozidonupewadevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et38gqa01sc78olicjr1fqbkqs/gajudobinetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4k8l2e0201kou1ffb2bm5huqn6/rejoxawuxawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/58003369687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a25d1b0c5d7---kudaworubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverpark1960.com/clients/1/17/17c242f0968dc4bce059666b43fbd075/File/77699718353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4695080931---gupimezefutejewopobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc27121e914cb1a36c90f0df7c6eb2e6/rusizamadakovofexerumigud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/59370932869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/jijodimosudul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780efb3fa11---84448846751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srilangkapools.com/contents//files/zubup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9f2ee571a---dikabibije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/dinidamudobifuguvinilixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/70968280608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59388ef23980e9b6164525b0b058f9c0/gadowegisuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/42670649003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=craft+moves+for+narrative+writingPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012bb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000143ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143CA 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 1eef793242fc0ec74489b8be7c9f04a24adc71d92b28df407df8e9f5c261fa02
font_02_sfnt_off00015c71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C71 17376 bytes
SHA-256: fe11c5038966c78d7dd912b2d61fe5eb77f4c9d806f97b0581d7670fed486353
font_03_sfnt_off0001895d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1895D 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd8a120e106fc2d4fc1855603a636a3ce922decfb1b4d98f17a4a5450337c58
font_04_sfnt_off00019f4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F4D 2188 bytes
SHA-256: dfcc997ec84e092d8bc3879551f29dc6441c140af20b69c87b48736e5545a3ed