Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4514e8e045404141…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:47:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d86488469b20500cabc904968dbde1a3 SHA-1: 2d18c133c7ef70d520d07d4fe3ecef18909d4d22 SHA-256: 4514e8e045404141b1d16fbf5b2ae49982318732b9f5997e3ea1a03c7fd5af88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a likely attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/buseva.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda16282c83---10508354990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53e1c2aa47---radujinezovinaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763aac6a10d---xoribezezokuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/800905ca8f8dc87c070e314613447ff3/jidamizife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpak6ea5oqipgdoopo2qjrqeqb/697449027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/40274182024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1cafnf026q8rdq3q1snq4eg3v/98862349423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d35b40217c4---81495631192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/gibineniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/78147804239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rubimuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/74607690814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoachtercamper.nl/userfiles/file/13700728278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pension-erlkoenig.de/img/editor/file/kefuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7onseventh.org/clients/868256/File/xedinasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/59065204242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22a46edc77---9371198003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6db70ad71416ff06d6c2fc3a0d157a7c/wukokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45057268520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dintainoodle.com/uploads/files/1708406553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmoto.cz/obrazky/file/1571056478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ddf9a95ca---jukefalapibegitisuvili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcalesterhighschool1960sreunion.com/clients/e/e6/e641a1dc2b4fc8b0483efb779338bfbd/File/23809973140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b70b787775ff7d59f998eba7a809b9d9/nisojosakarakuzesur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/37635557299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=trait%C3%A9+instituant+la+communaut%C3%A9+%C3%A9conomique+europ%C3%A9enne+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_off0000bf1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF1A 17468 bytes
SHA-256: cad4c4e435cc7908765a217e722950e8774205f0c92d40dae3d249f207f15238
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001036e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1036E 11144 bytes
SHA-256: d79a0e50b720aae1ac6bc3624285b82e7feb33eeadfe8b813cd2b958750e788e