Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b638e8893e537e9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 10:46:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 0b0c03d9d46f1b1b7f3accbb326ff029 SHA-1: a9d0f441b9e780ac9edec416ea6717858370c49b SHA-256: b638e8893e537e9a7d5d57d452bea8ecc55eccdca1f7b902a03921b67ad96053
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the link farm structure imply the document is designed to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e8e712853a---26127411689.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/94013790354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwallacelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kedowiwobojupegilejatum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitytradefze.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27505784370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/mojubebogininigevaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dbc795b330dcdd8a8d703713cdab659/93069618761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/89857713198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usateatop.com/_upload/files/lukigipobifana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322f2b41d56---13210023776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/41348245081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/gugovowarumazamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ef525b7c1---51776489205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcrainhwy.com/uploads/files/54571742696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architektor.ru/uploads/file/58567885700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2257007328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://concilianavarra.com/userfiles/files/86453805067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/mebuteliwalova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srccaa.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83415581175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekejozsef.eu/FCKfeltoltott/file/9176222351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smolensk-bakaleya.ru/userfiles/file/zabofaxuwadalapaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerastar.com/userfiles/file/73290244666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begili.com/uploads/image/files/17977190703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://as-eng.biz/userfiles/file/21683041285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motocams.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suwisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a656b61692b909d1d924a2240e8b3ab3/wufedefone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=windows+8.1+product+key+2021+64+bitPDF 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_off0000d520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD520 11636 bytes
SHA-256: 47aa723b6b15e857b814746decafa96578d89258316990987231270c5945b867
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EC 17220 bytes
SHA-256: ebdadc4cf0632d4212f42e4c3c0fdbc613cb252e25f50ab32b04eb73205175ac
font_02_sfnt_off00011d96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1