Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4954df1cf743500…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:00:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9c9367a650e98fdeab2498ca3099a527 SHA-1: d43de2fe229ee727521f77bb2d3b523a9b8dcb01 SHA-256: b4954df1cf743500dfcdb271e5ad259060b30413f028295127b1e45713146135
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics suggests these links are hosted on disposable or compromised infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74843484797.pdf
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1fc48234561adb0f874b66485a06f7d/12187239915.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208ffbe141a1e3b54d9a74fecb528d0f/runavamakubajotirafisamit.pdf
    • https://hnhaa.com/userfiles/tnejp//files/85284924100.pdf
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4840169f802988399396d759492c0602/zivujagadunolawo.pdf
    • http://deepakbatteries.com/uploads/file/mubojoxubob.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4bb7e54f5---zibavawavibexanug.pdf
    • https://nilsahost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/fumomelipuvegi.pdf
    • http://bburago.info/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/72109481011.pdf
    • https://nomortiga.com/contents/files/poxedekaputesinuveg.pdf
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210615152152758.pdf
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/bamefisevetejulimupunazov.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d1c145a4c---55800640313.pdf
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/lorinipedoworebajivubizit.pdf
    • https://hiampelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06f682d90ec62645c5e064db92d7e199/demojifuvowotaxopuzavejeb.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160931d632f236---dazomuduwotimafoponipiv.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8193abeb231a61117da134008a490594/vixuvemaje.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fe36aa638e219349efe486c2b8f7021/33286332410.pdf
    • http://perksys.com/userfiles/file/79719857947.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8aq16hv1utu5a3cjpv0agi6p6/gigofuvalebudopigesoworax.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=gradeup+current+affairs+pdf+for+banking
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bfe9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFE9 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d800.bin
76d18963c4c64d0086bb745eb66f3073464dcc03ef652be83972cd3a99e67df4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD800 11120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1aa.bin
8e63feba3800bf70c2d6a663aa7db2cebac5998dd36a55f30fd8c7465472dfc1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AA 18432 bytes