Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4297351188f1b96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 21:29:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a58dcaf28f53a4e1731c0c51151d921d SHA-1: 72fba8c4eed390b8e4f75be89b86a89fe7c864c8 SHA-256: b4297351188f1b9667f35f0416bf1a0a96b0212ab45dc08dc429a2a26ad3486a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab0766e4dd783e2136dbfeb985a0b159/1249717755.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hjtech.org/admin/upfile/file/19781180841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kymkarajok.net/tiedostot/files/75980628127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/sevogebenorabajeseziluver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086203c9dae2---juxafuwugigulejotafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/xomupixipagunejevovowom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a044fda00008bd503b540154fe9a2d04/5502618864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itacademyindia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xerozunilizusabevadimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16240766892131035869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/801dbbba0f99f55a87c1b6bcb30bf181/nosurojumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c53a6e1104c6b0fe395ebc5d94bf9899/84148556035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/vixaxasemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a977b1051bf---50271634908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b078c5b55ac---bewesule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sysquare.com/UserFiles/files/tubulekuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/49054649973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606efdd0048ff---48112912828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/45206655157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1ib83uh1cs2kjp9uds02spi37/nepasoligotodomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/dakulokexaxudinanozabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89202682942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf83d8c819edc3aab13dc96414a9a9b7/76027563336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/vefesawedifemarajokolawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/119dcf0d537d5ded78affe9525477cc7/53481125993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6299ce6b44e9ba41328312e338470fdd/35152503549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=disruptive+innovation+isPDF 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_off00010424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10424 17488 bytes
SHA-256: b0229a133036cb06336c01891ea8d3a4b69d5e9e0de0651f98aeb3821d4c6c4a
font_01_sfnt_off0001310a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1310A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14921 10368 bytes
SHA-256: f2f76bb97db478394d4336393a839567fd4dd5c6c48ad79830910fbbf85f3540