Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4788f8c1cf2e2ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 01:45:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a9e213ad5eec4cf827b49d5f5b0c06a7 SHA-1: a124861cbec1dd898e195204893ddc13781cd5f1 SHA-256: b4788f8c1cf2e2aba88f1f5e54fd7bcfe5d5437e15de1babd8d4c2a00082f99b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://selapro.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/642192661.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/zamazebozekazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/kawivibarinovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7d633ef95---67391591125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlmiueg6ern32elal19ik3dg71/mufosixupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabbeleecooking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96922684962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/67527539165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daegyung.kr/userfiles/file/20210912172332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoquimicos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gamewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04fb183afd69206e3b9d242e842cf4b3/72535388721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aal.tw/uploads/htmlupload/files/jejopawevagozalulaxokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/99147172243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea34971f14---65940193628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/91383006655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaie.org/userfiles/file/20210921190226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/wanodevefipufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/sofodeduxojawagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613299293fcdc---bekefarasarebebokesigutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149157c65bbd---73198376768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diphong.com/uploads/63928777967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexedanang247.com/uploads/image/files/kevitalitegilupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/93858932899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/54879289921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+el+tubemate+android+gratisPDF 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_off0000d1da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1DA 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 5a48e5b8065dd654b90d5ec1fcb6db2ec265f5770dfd8d925be5f8e0699fe0b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB13 17240 bytes
SHA-256: b34fa1a4f18f34f7fed224e5268272577432bcaf88fe8350f17fceebe2bb030d
font_02_sfnt_off00011740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11740 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1