Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4b5ef16f5224e97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-06-11 19:35:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: da81f8d3f4a570ac547e37c8a6f55c81 SHA-1: e2d035f28f51f2eb7432f53c5ebe42afde83724e SHA-256: f4b5ef16f5224e979f692d3d749a4d4f605cf5d9b73c49e9f2fff5ffd5b0aff7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=esp+pubg+lite+hack PDF link annotation
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860fe30017d---revusujojenebusoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ee03b21a23ed6fe6d08e13ab79e3171/2976594910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79d3b1740e---17301908867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/64366305674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d578f2e50---47554272508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608258eccc7bf---29498368044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609919f4923c3---kovapelivofezowegomosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/88127143436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/421ea00750545c77c81a2cf7c3dfd543/77629477688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/tadudidafefadekizunerixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee2af800ee---kafofojolobuxanexozuvitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02eddcfd5f---1334434090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098401376270---bakuvigatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/97740978168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caf-ljubljana.si/docs/liwajeraxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/771eac424e420c16469085e48b0c26eb/6157804762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7D 6744 bytes
SHA-256: 048fb1891f432488516cd811e7b04d68e7d39e548ca3495625137f8fb0c23ff4
font_01_sfnt_off00010062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10062 4928 bytes
SHA-256: 5a84ad33521b5b3cc030cdaf5849eec108074ee7ab9cc1b67465d4d5fcd07275
font_02_sfnt_off0001112c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1112C 1896 bytes
SHA-256: 8f5b3ab956c74815cbd4748e930e58c959a8e1318948e1b8beed9917b60a91bc
font_03_sfnt_off00011a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A59 12544 bytes
SHA-256: b7b9324039c2f28170f0fe425bf205d98f1f0469a4f2c6296b96a6f0c09b260e
font_04_sfnt_off000143bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143BD 16528 bytes
SHA-256: 0c4af61f3078ed52f91173328950cf66fd0b5a452b51daf7f4fcd4121db5bf5f
font_05_sfnt_off00015a1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A1D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333