Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4be0514c46fab35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-06-28 10:16:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 14306deac72a721f02832640a325044c SHA-1: ee1fefbc43ed83e99a7d8611f2117e945fe54e40 SHA-256: b4be0514c46fab357e11599b05e38a7e861a525ae1ce1f659d60b031a44a8fb8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or hosted on disposable domains. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing websites, as indicated by the numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=active+listening+podcast PDF link annotation
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/xuzofazetiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///xiwikabeken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuanhuaabshanquoc.vn/files/34685388239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzycznescyzoryki.pl/userfiles/file/fogumafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccbc105df96---87054915531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e9eedf39e1614cc919b0086cb512418/66893618175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekingtogo.com/uploads/files/66530042795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/lamovigonekepanudozaruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/zaterupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inwallendorf.de/userfiles/file/87743482687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160816e5182290---45244895714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2871nlcqogbqrc35rf39547l49/raserupagidotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ea527ae66---jafegupufefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://licausi.it/userfiles/files/togufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/98817062345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cbd46fb2b676c623c0da50572a8c23f/36826143396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/53965251399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/jilefoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09ff6d8b8cbc7c871a920dc6ceeeb5c9/48699871141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macphersonproperties.com/clients/876251/File/jumukojodiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/salop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7bd5af0ea9---popinerofeguwumilafuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c04ed666a31ff3184e0783c228c0c0ee/sukugegitakepemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cassotech.nl/site/data/ws/files/luvovimula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f58b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58B 17076 bytes
SHA-256: 503fe0ed5cb3e9f87456ea231abb1053abf2431f34032a4cef5f230e63551b44
font_01_sfnt_off00012216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12216 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A2D 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 88ad2211503352849f961ef65981fc4d5cf0f046a4537da14d761aacbc7a95ed