Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e4ddc9b51d5925b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:27:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 44dfc15558ef4c14fca7e11790607294 SHA-1: 0dbda2c5467c63f75cc1b94a8f6b20152aaed599 SHA-256: 0e4ddc9b51d5925b65357ac506a769a1f4f52cfd950ce1eec652e6e6a69be3b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on potentially disposable hosting points to a campaign designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ancient+history+pdf+for+upsc PDF link annotation
    • http://hrampetraipavlavosstanovlenie.ru/content/images/user/file/bubebapolovesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31d4bd596d---larimugopuwuludujubovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/87979875699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7af25576a1---midojuvisiwinenubexodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colafranceschi.it/userfiles/files/18226267869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/xejunokefojamilikuwatemud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/jifovopijuposimuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ce7a3fa65---94957388620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5701ec7efe---55903841196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50673827252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/rarugikebemobarojidukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalshield-uae.com/userfiles/files/87016878146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/25752131067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a4c9f9ac62521de42c8eb70ef8bbbbb/palazubofowebazunes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/75566306937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10c1190e5782176597245ea0c8ef5b97/kenojobolavekini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/boxaxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/semevg8ptcib3v02klmi8rpdbi/desuzeboserefefiraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalnetworks.de/www.galabau-poscher.de/main/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodugefezegofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75tplskdacbf7tml8envq427pj/43103341031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe60e52844---89184338582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d33011d83e---xirejinufugojejutol.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_off0000ff91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF91 19084 bytes
SHA-256: a82ef6a6699cb42bc25f08dbeac8dd8460a6b5f516e5d06b01859fcaae6808be
font_01_sfnt_off00013113.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13113 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 6e4ca083a2c035a0d75245c4698ec487c3c8fbe315a4e4eeac189fba6405054b
font_02_sfnt_off000149ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1