Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db4635ad53c839f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 77626d913571c4f1620c906c2cef8902 SHA-1: 4b27fe1513f2709eb54d2985b50f4cdeb9af8c30 SHA-256: db4635ad53c839f545b0a8c5f215381b059a5ac3836d13a76302865bd8adff3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute phishing content or second-stage malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=t+sql+tutorial+point+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1db445d5c3909f56266cf6659b00de77/fimasidabapomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hersheyhigh1981.com/clients/37302/File/52784536348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d6641c488---81323963753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aim1g9makebtmrsqrjund8vu1k/lixadufemovakefimekubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfae8be4a9---77996602735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caa74d9e8f1---gajilelijazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d6c02f8c1---56401242824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b49175034---71670739888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4gupbqi39rbvea150ul67gbam0/rivijapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ebe6261d2---sokamad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementsgogreen.com/userfiles/file/65328832219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/39344352169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/jatulexekalazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cc540b7e0118bff1718fc5d4c08112d/28782123466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/99328650176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wardwrightself.com/clients/863644/File/rubobazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4732e054e61c4e80d9460692e451758/fejuzowozujomupufutabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/litakine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/juxagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://108homed.com/userfiles/files/94324759070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcue971k80o4duvv04km0l9hi6/28691524756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents/files/weporeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ser-buk.com/userfiles/file/gufemududivixirexoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/31342833915.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_off0000f71b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF71B 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 0f82fa177ba02db61f31335febe9a1d5033119e43fa0f6244d36e2dc84a73ada
font_01_sfnt_off00010f0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F0B 19212 bytes
SHA-256: 4facfc6394db7f0ff1e114a97701af3832a2da40f70508ebb756815c5674c36b
font_02_sfnt_off000141cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141CC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1