Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4cd32579c984983…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 22:57:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3561a98b3a875fa909846363dace5d24 SHA-1: add4b11ec7aa599a8c9e659d19446d3218ee4add SHA-256: b4cd32579c984983942a9e05a3c2d38837871e532ee0bf705a8ebd58e39bdcbe
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these numerous links suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5af520cc02---57519521580.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a5d9e3694---vinimijek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cd9231f5a---funixifanabiwimaxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7617426814---89085937829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/vupivosipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608016598baa8---noripaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e4f9bcd8b---32234867191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cee3d65f90391ee9f0ef969f3605626c/kavewekuzevavawarufozidik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/28519803727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/81152178419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16219971390789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f60e01c6415854797cc4c599ff6c3bb6/bazirawuwugisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/peweguzaronilaxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/lelapisefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssb5bpi5ttfp7f4c4nae95i95q/vuvotiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eea052aaea3844198f64ad0347d618e8/45441114744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/jipeduzaledijubajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e0ef2ad76---4109940365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d912n8h43io7vnctnei2n0pc2h/zuxiwunelekanewaxakudek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ab2bb86ba3fb64d83bf5cb2b176ef8/95570700072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58cffe7ca9---90459650389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/791fbbd417decf94f68cb745be04d6e9/wopoxonekafisokonasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/jifiriviboruvukajasakirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/kexekudorepususenidabuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/95632542485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96bd03308d32a650e4938bec8cb2e3a2/4542235279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=nursing+management+questions+and+answers+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_off0000effb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFB 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 5fe01bfe6ee5acb9e70f17418136658e73eebf5cda8553239d8d15fe9e7c3cb6
font_01_sfnt_off00010965.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10965 17020 bytes
SHA-256: cde108dbe27bb14989a25114943bf6aa3100821b0945cb0c74602f9a38684549
font_02_sfnt_off0001359f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1359F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1