Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4b6dca97a5d2c73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.7 KB Created: 2021-05-03 00:19:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 5979c010dd8ac90d6d923ce2b29286cd SHA-1: 575558674b0b25325fdef36ccd3173aa13c2582a SHA-256: c4b6dca97a5d2c731b82030040e1b17090b13f3661b8209e87746d00457141d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document's apparent purpose is to trick users into visiting these malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6318cfc0f123166462865bbbee35d20a/52627763369.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0335b70cafd8acec646c25863590c6/genupiwijite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23ecd88a6dbf23cbd9e05c63994ccde/mumedopepojoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce5fe92c4d249e6045cca3a5a37f08d6/vapezipasusalojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63c63b4ab05fab7c9474a6eee4444b02/34925624874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804cefd2494---gamunuzawoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14c61d3d7fb29b6b2bc50da2c0c77f24/senabarafusofisakogirerem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/22632061812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82da363d251a825c6e10c75db300e271/leziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a08278f08---mipuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/39935914400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d501a87edd---42051349100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607194405725b---tukewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58c76b7d4f90e5105cc92a78889bc3f8/22429559270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080dc4544234---36742753818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/34599876315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e09045eff---9856125485.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/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=manual+de+planos+arquitectonicos+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC884 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 29c24a38a5ad757cb47d89a8f4ba4a7cada0bed3fc369859819b66de2bb555f3
font_01_sfnt_off0000da91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA91 10172 bytes
SHA-256: 6d7c8a00af2fd253187fd5451f0d489c7ab3b1e28a52943c22e765528e0c96c9