Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d803fdb0ba0eb36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:03:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b964b467653f462823c6a78e447657be SHA-1: 4bbc1e2f9e8a31d69ae67bb7a27dec91132d15a8 SHA-256: 4d803fdb0ba0eb3660dbe1070e9817fd9469b593da77fba3cbec4d0d8190e17d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure align with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://www.hotelamoha.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b44d07d76---fukufon.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca4afb9906---bulapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uir4nlqg2snvvh13am91g1lpk3/36995723314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00e0e78d6cb2c3c7472857536c2d39f0/kaferusawawepobipanawopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe29dcbe49---55987702841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/57292188095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708f401919f---64910089561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/30143523944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/45484634323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/notisutipajovidozimomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/5582960500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a225d1f0d01bc19f3251da52cfc6634a/bojilisisopinowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92aea50bf77ced68a5cc8becc7fb9e5d/fevufuvukenuxoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2b25faa1324aa7f27168d66a280afda/pexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/posolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/15869200752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d696bde134294d8d93a667ae49ecc0/54272560081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sl82f8r4u0bh0u1i97jk54edj6/lutuvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c11cb3e1b---nudixujokemomerat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fe2bd256c666981af32de15ec74bff6/96711217707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aac55bff487a8a67e0d3c40fbea6630/rozikowomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aaab6fbfb58e971411b4fcd2946f029/telikolifovixumidubino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/56000724280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=doc+band+meaningPDF 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_off000173cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00018bdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18BDF 17468 bytes
SHA-256: a91f39f98eebda7cb7ee6b7a2018ffd96c9888730252a2926cf5b9332fc13435
font_02_sfnt_off0001b974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B974 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 963912ff6cb99e959c4d42c8efb35126895ce69acbf935a2028fc5efa70dd591