Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4363e05cfd591128…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-10-03 07:02:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 53174edc36cca7697e477768770b6bb7 SHA-1: 106bb1d110657a00514fc7c47ae5408ac03c53bd SHA-256: 4363e05cfd591128a4255fef0b766e4f0970bd8ce9d15dde86b0f071b023e9e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=enrique+iglesias+maybe+mp3+download+320kbps PDF link annotation
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/34696703664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twinmd.ru/userfiles/file/67855638106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b8f58fd46c99d8ad2fd89e65efb415/49411793109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/vevadedufababilalebofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stijsr.com/userfiles/file/jilifeluvidubisatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greddy.com/admin/common/ckfinder/userfiles/File/96613549004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/530f22044df2ff9b1c72b9d1442036e9/38184295047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e94edc15e---46330366981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samajsutra.com/userfiles/files/26501714281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/nofimitubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ee5e4f89b---22985483140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/27616270331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg2k6dskllv2sbb196jvj9akj0/zuviwodubukularifeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78193110409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/vogetoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/52772151620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1111.morefriendship.com/upload/files/jiwajuxazopewodolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pogujufixexatusiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/kijabinimofur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/37427201437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613677d6c680e---padufutalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riverside-plaza.com/upload/userfile/files/18740662052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-food.com/userfiles/file/fiparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/17424055260.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_off0000bb6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB6A 18932 bytes
SHA-256: 80e1632b58217f7e351bde5d96c35c984dada33da509ebcdbd344b5eb76821eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10575 11712 bytes
SHA-256: de57d407293b9651a8fc386539874d155922be28d175b7c38cce68072df9f47a