Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4aa08ec4e6607f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:27:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d74d492ee77d95b7d8ee27e821d93ef2 SHA-1: ba71f010bab34f601b08a96dd7ceb34297851cc7 SHA-256: b4aa08ec4e6607f9201347e50a7a7551f07644cb859abb5cb50c7335ea511d93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm, likely intended to host phishing pages or distribute further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a39detikd4imm0bchlhh5ju0mi/pivakemolebef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7f96f19a3---zivekuzap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/juwurevade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49451398921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basumati.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93206459927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonkuehner.de/gfx/userfiles/files/30128483579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/28636115907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c62ce747ae5bf7b977d8e3ab0efc577/kovexomikaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pattarasawat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3344088316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.com/uploads/image/files/92472724238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitajeans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuvovesosisesezivoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/nazelapufum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d3f90e6f899112dfc9f121b8a9faa58/wuxotiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vmaenkbo20o2lamg2s1momnrf4/sawarojisitedumatijogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bucatariizidite.ro/printuri-fi/files/87820413662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/xelutofamozigakofabizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210803143153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u4p4tdt8qpc5k005bm3d408qf6/gaxofifevatizubazaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbrasoftware.hu/images/uploads/files/43593081675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210630144940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostmegasoft.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pupixasalizeluforof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igabana.com/upfolder/e/files/20210715201148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca96ad25a9---62548652569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083bb694afff---60867579115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106bd3e3303e---16932226472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cardiac+potential+phasesPDF 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_off0000ece5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE5 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 99dcfc222a5e371f57dcf9c7c697eb220bdd672a1cdcab19c7bb681ce22f35cd
font_01_sfnt_off00011937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11937 10644 bytes
SHA-256: d6688e1adb15008131d6e2df6bb554fd54c451003f1817c2c519042f8c9374dc
font_02_sfnt_off00013180.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13180 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1