Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e4d6f5b73cba5b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:33:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 80f826c6353121b5cdf2b5895c70217d SHA-1: 5659cd989fd8f24aa80a6f3f6311c9ea4c7e5e9a SHA-256: 0e4d6f5b73cba5b030b7abda839fb4aa339ced5c250b365641ddb547e8e9890a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with multiple URLs, several of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories. One such URL, http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c96e4cabd60e01a3b956b11356d2cfaa/resixu.pdf, is flagged as a potential entry point for malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c96e4cabd60e01a3b956b11356d2cfaa/resixu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://infosantiere.ro/userfiles/file/retun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7321c4a9f6c3e4c4dd126ce7eacc878/71405180804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/68416470771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/xovudezimefanulume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/nagogunatogeroforojoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/30008852653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nupqfek9h2l1vpsrst9p6kitqe/bunilezurezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/14483612247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fhora3fu0vaaq1iigfporag71/jafeseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkohut.pl/file/somiludavubolimazufetuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83580329c4834dff450337b078c61786/79589686845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786948d75c2---17928806017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/34637431689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/zereg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candemdientu.com/Images_upload/files/fuxisatokuneduziwiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxbrio.kr/files/files/mugabigatob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c615721d0---zedotufagitolorire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c385e69fc66---44936302236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gixopobakemunapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/neete5p0oqidp2ehrnh79uqs2h/lagekafegeponiribipadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gj437n6jq6shat6nsl1a82sm2/duwatexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b23df0859---37923101670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9bgtrggc909914asdn1itp3df/41453327415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=american+hospital+association+patient+bill+of+rights+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://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_off0000e55e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE55E 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 26fa7719db6270bf1cdb6b96e09c973f6b430a4aa5a20770b79f3fd16e030fd6
font_01_sfnt_off000112f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B0D 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 97c27bf1b7d41049fc841807f0bc35265daab439e1f759520292a33e28effde9