Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fb95cb708bb3f24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:49:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1d3a540167b768b1c45fdedf8dbaaf18 SHA-1: c8a786d8bf050def4fef6ce0f7fe4679ad636950 SHA-256: 4fb95cb708bb3f24647ec667d4b63f2bbaf58344df54195abc93a478ea91a96f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to distribute phishing content or second-stage malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into downloading malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607797c8a1f9b---85047000371.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/13971624127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/xixetiwubalilusabuzameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/rukivajekiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/442309b4d98f6343fb088f9409127be8/jawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qnh3oic83khieunt4n15bdbgpq/17944630126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8e5934ae3d---mibipitanepifigokawanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macap.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sewaxizifinixusuwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yar-net.ru/userfiles/file/87398969359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/xuzaxulexidajalokodota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de3d14d4ad7---gujivogajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engcaphone.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/rapetonezuwuzotudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nktrading.qa/file/files/xabarewivubiwulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e7ad519f47697f7b52c772dd8eef199/gelomego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f81b76f676e93ce253a6d30db5b5b2c3/xonelutewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ldbell1965.net/clients/85689/File/pogokixiderebezibovaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83827669486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenaramainc.org/clients/875997/File/jivifuzifulabetojibejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29722348478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/87334023753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirtproducties.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wipogozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/46772218774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fbhsclassof70.com/clients/f/f6/f6e65d48c6cf753e26882f86001d336b/File/30115997396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+phantom+of+the+opera+sheet+music+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000d89b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD89B 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 0f138e6dc20b65296aeac4fe432662ffa600679b0197d94b2888c895821fb155
font_01_sfnt_off0000f237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF237 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A49 17720 bytes
SHA-256: eb3f5eac28066f36d2e6a75cd38770dacff2afc87464c653e7efa9bbeb358c98