Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4d8a2dcd1ae8e52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-29 13:26:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: dac67cc6f4cd2f7974d7286faa880496 SHA-1: 606cc581674c65495ecdbbdd6136838b50dd719a SHA-256: b4d8a2dcd1ae8e522a526fdd24f36e042559240a18d72edd42c59bf20efc0020
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and an IP address, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+ebook+converter+app PDF link annotation
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/mapagemilodovedame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnvvr.ro/userfiles/file/pivogupuxijaseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqs8o1dk7ucu0jmi7ipqbv2de1/xaxinetazigek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/88777112120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alcera.ca/userfiles/file/35260643648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.fr/img/Data/file/gireboxepusogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepej.com/upload/file/rixedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuc-fac.com/uploadfiles/20210915150416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613996ad36dfd---14118739206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atiksigorta.com/files/28685933688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1631392582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pskov.agisinfo.ru/uploads/content/files/tofituf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxqcgs.net/filespath/files/20210908161804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/24940967081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worshipedia.net/sites/default/files/file/lofibomazivuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/41829081425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifo-sea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89824828813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9eb0511d07677dd2ecaf55cd3ec6afc6/nafabafiwurawudusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c64c69330a112dcdac5b6578d21e36eb/86936851363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzhrjd.com/images/uploadfile/files/xitupadimijeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/dilivuditafexutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/84575494942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodzipo.com/uploads/userfiles/files/22755161706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://montpellier-business-plan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/tubiporuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--atpta-nfb.lv/images/userfiles/files/joxubunumolusalaxotawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161443bfe1ce63---40382737647.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30490890973.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_off0000bc9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B1 10608 bytes
SHA-256: e33ddaf3f25f6ac3e24fc003a6933e6927b6f7a2ef3265e75b2996ba1e1d29e9
font_02_sfnt_off0000ece2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE2 18020 bytes
SHA-256: 66d4ea5cc1589f869058808c0ffbb8ee4016dbe786cc6acef6ae7c71441c6358