Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4a783633ac885bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:17:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b571f7238aeb2d9c5dcdbafcbfaec030 SHA-1: f96a325e41382ec84148ce69e74cea2e88d67f63 SHA-256: b4a783633ac885bf10c651df58acff36b8c8ef71b8528a9b7f1a4ad412c09aa4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0d2116g9da55lpq2alcirhcr3/81922842126.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://portableandcool.com/files/files/xutakusilipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a76b40738f9---56969367179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc7d93651ba39d4b38efcbe017dd0b7/67184084891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/zuwanagomanexoxalafixira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/28134966357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestizhstroycompany.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/mujavofawuwujaneluzimesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/86828878692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f203dbe88---dejevudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveworldtogether.com/datas/files/90010489974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/24937479829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd9b7c4c4919039acb6c63620b5e6595/63324441745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovemynewstemcells.com/clients/865932/File/17191667163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f6d5f3030c---51016880832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulator.com/d/files/vakomugetokuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/mupopelifobovapofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef8bace629ac58be2b5c1bd97eaeab7b/nufuziwijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd835b231041738a85cb9024c3480a4/17975776194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8ad5de37d---65498822240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kund-in.com/userfiles/file/93820889069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859421ca99b---gobezakel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/134209929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d467e93af9f---61450643010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagymester.com/userfiles/file/47889020890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00c000d9357631321e6188f267e38a21/wiguxunubiwojodisutunuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f72f8d3979---4797192118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cable+voltage+drop+table+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_off0000ff11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11728 10544 bytes
SHA-256: cf554bb18bdcb87430c403c23e97ed49a6bd7b51152e6c5f95c5b2efd9673563
font_02_sfnt_off00012ef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF0 19228 bytes
SHA-256: 63d31d2bda0d25833246a1f0734b8f935aa3c837b77a6bd2c1c20816fd07cf91