Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4fd6137c8d2d48f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-13 14:36:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d45c7c2abc72eb3fd70e9b78d09849a8 SHA-1: 398221fe76016b0079482605d7f1b6fdb85c4fdf SHA-256: b4fd6137c8d2d48f4bde1df0fe2005c3f161867a3b82bb7a28703b11fead3a4d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=joeboy+celebration+audio PDF link annotation
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9f55099ca---notizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45irvnskau9q8g09jebm3ck2sm/lokafiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/70047850928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nunisivese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa82a01cc2---86590829609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609745f70abc9---xirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0087c5fd8---sexave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742195c2424---19467856735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a4cc673a3b326ac286b01bc4da64d64/96381027745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb6feed9a8---vuputawezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eab618e269e5e6c45d26d5fd9ef99e8f/32622115191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpb21ga11ra90pa2g1ee10oue7/88376302942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792df120995---95993609991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tajeer.co/userfiles/file/1507337463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b558f593fb1061b3e42b668e80a032be/64042604122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3d73864292---68164372850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/pivifabisuvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jokevudanaguzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eaeb92ef6b---bidapelawis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f56a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF56A 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 0da5b08af07b2b6ef7230a64e2cc6af02af08a9aadc39d3fce77a29cb003d168
font_01_sfnt_off0001066a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1066A 1712 bytes
SHA-256: 3f0828ce8539d6704c3c5c487418eae6389b94b93c39031e834bee5c0f95218b
font_02_sfnt_off00010eee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEE 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 4d766e65e8395add139b4cfd0bab296fba7b0aae6fc9fac72ef440ccca7b96db
font_03_sfnt_off000134e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E4 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 764fe263e68fd20aff2bbd96e69f5a400d440299d02096befa162391f913c7cf