Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb4ee56634d8ff12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.1 KB Created: 2021-06-19 14:24:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: ef5f2717c604b67e1921ef6b3f382d26 SHA-1: 7670e603d53813d726d0d9dd21d2d4b6bbf41019 SHA-256: bb4ee56634d8ff126c939c29af6ed01b78f2326a83c369596e3bfab1465edc22
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document contains lures for remote support tools and password-protected archives, suggesting an attempt to trick the user into downloading and executing a malicious payload. The embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, likely hosting further stages of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad034c0589b---vanavat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607284fe0c936---88171740643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/walixibagevuwuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a42jkghlm2gaeblpl99bqlr4n2/60581630708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099578447524---87707288644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c9946c558e73912e065ae662572740/gufutizapakitasenozajijij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelstore.tn/userfiles/file/bamagagoxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/zibulewibigumovavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68ca6lc2loe7h2bmqgj5hlovfo/93556910036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaiminsales.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17536003334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/69038679961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arendic.cl/files/jafozajexowowimomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/814e72d7a69172cef3f5803abe9009bb/74503303366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c92a72508e14d36348c9353139be1db/xevimofawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/ziwabigewotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732f06a6ae2---50712343631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084676ee7a56---puvokakugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=csgo+demo+wallhack+commandPDF 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://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_off00013a27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A27 5212 bytes
SHA-256: e7a78a2de1ffb33007299ca21d8a801bb115abb2770eb17906215aaac7662a2e
font_01_sfnt_off00014c55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C55 5316 bytes
SHA-256: e2f925e78c6f26e7bf997d9f736b1477ecf4056291bda88ed16347854cd398b3
font_02_sfnt_off00015e51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E51 16132 bytes
SHA-256: 3c886d583ae36409dd935f6c58c4edcd109447d348a1bdcd0aab86cf42384ad5
font_03_sfnt_off00018d7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18D7D 16204 bytes
SHA-256: c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449