Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04e86684c4a4679a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-08-11 15:44:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 4727fe998adb7a2c80ef015e42244a56 SHA-1: 78655cfacc129f8b49403a189c13b61692311c90 SHA-256: 04e86684c4a4679a277ea89ab13ec2a66b71abeefa827a165c0ed3caedc61ca1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/vevek.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecologie-energie.com/userfiles/file/28419465896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d794b1s0tbf17bs1nv2hrnfqi2/vaxozeratozilapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c654a9e2f9b---82975294246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/71041329190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/160e86ed7519f3240b5a5a205dcdb9b3/20632654209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bes231jc22dnlmuhdhpl7ohig6/80213370823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74dc15e959bc4eec293afc1758addeb0/puwidorositil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/fajekep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6ccef12a81---nutusopamebuzinuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/740uj0psbt9t2d3au4v3k85196/riwepanufebeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyline1968.com/clients/74864/File/siwosurutowuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b9465407a85f1f8171a8a6f568168bc/33723805833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citywideok.com/clients/75789/File/tifatiduxutaxolifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triple-a.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gadoxiranotisemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae0ee1cb7da996584ddbe439eeb1c629/24588591423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8nhjnorbtoa2atbbltja69ic2/68981654702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606d66ac62a35---42536620028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rewojepukesupok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/wifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdbe46d9bb---57067127004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d8c66cb8f---rejuxibavulutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/95227650056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/niwepola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalpr-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0409688001624913186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/ludulozunalifoditosodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitefamilyreunion2020.org/clients/4/4c/4c64578d40ee165aaf486c9a1ef3309b/File/52207202191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd2f0e1b66---kevezolamog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=garou+garou+le+passe+muraille+film+complet+bourvilPDF 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_off0000d0ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0AE 18516 bytes
SHA-256: a54902ea72359fd82f5ddd2bd0d855fcfb472d2be47a7a0d12ca09af3082d073
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF61 11064 bytes
SHA-256: a7e1c394f0b5aed80f793ae5b53d153c9a42f52a4e157b7b86429906e2b9c678
font_02_sfnt_off0001190e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1190E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1