Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eb56f34e4d1c58e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:27:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 693c528ac25d340ae66897830c8d5cd2 SHA-1: 6c251ae517b7dae4ebc41cb41d317de84efcbde1 SHA-256: 4eb56f34e4d1c58e126308b65ff008c9ae174de761842dd3b1c3f3ff71d94407
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including external URI links and a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this is a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the attack pattern of tricking users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chsl+2019+syllabus+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://salon-urody-bellis.pl/images/file/wifipijesog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5pa1v3lm6rn064ufkj2nt0m4t/nikefigaxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtandgulet.com/userfiles/file/93541015981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a01574c27e844e5e2c9ad5672bf4b50/69894293325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damsindia.org/admin/uploads/file/sokudakade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6748b3a7eee93729ebf4a108fbe8230f/mutizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5536586851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/51009753190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/jopokuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021627023296979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csom.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab68829ab1dc771d91fcca33723bb8d4/80959529221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316ue8en0a0m32te3njubc9q4p/12960139299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotrackusa.com/fckedit_file/file///20210903_19_4_56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mugarutusenegepag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2c6d11b26---81752069807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/86431342128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/48888724324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/vawizikavuludatefulusavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l57jjfph2ac7j4t4l2pnan1at2/gurikani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5658e4e906b42a3135b0dd2ad949bb32/23231292356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retodokisub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/kofigifonejafadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/rukedafazasifisuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a454f8838eb---felanopexaderuwobafobaki.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_off0000d4d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D3 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 87cf6ae14b55f44376ef329ec73aed22908bad82ea93470eabbe053ba836bc05
font_01_sfnt_off0000edbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBB 18420 bytes
SHA-256: f11b099d08dee3abecf189c57c081badcc76c8fa745f01304ef36232e8522540
font_02_sfnt_off00011d72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1