Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b414600c8a9c3b41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:48:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d91bcd99f6940255dced36b08eadc188 SHA-1: 4ccf5c2939433b7e146d59385421cf2e7a428a40 SHA-256: b414600c8a9c3b416b480d8394d0269c8690033ff4c8951e14d21d8cf3d13616
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting malicious files. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, likely to obscure the true malicious destination. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, consistent with phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hollywood+dubbed+movies+website PDF link annotation
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d14ded2581---jewiguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portalbime.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/bovamirigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/vekijelenudufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenstadt-apotheke.com/userfiles/file/potipuwomavisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vssteel1999.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/totowexikaxowixewerumugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/288546306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///83403267861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/14735433363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chorland-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/37589191307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e425060a43---75213435228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/xanizasuxufeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakloboucku.cz/uploaded/file/repof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343f7c357ee---liwilagefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelene-centrum.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/karidagonoguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/58207706419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karatenarrewarren.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozesuwekokojejag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/17873717671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/lejikera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tristar-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59239528468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c3c0dd02c---negapawofobubawuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/86238473749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/22405776846.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_off0000e70c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1E 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 02a709c9ddc7f526d1c84833f2385445696c75b770ad1e7c6adbb482870f5146
font_02_sfnt_off00012c8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C8C 10540 bytes
SHA-256: efe2c2a8220ea61f08bf993d054880244919f798dd9623b96891c4dd0b86afe5