Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4540cecd1115b39d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:53:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4d8ae11d51c1e961cae26d3e601335b6 SHA-1: 3b5e04269f728080beb3b3958d96df7189efe5fa SHA-256: 4540cecd1115b39d93fbd261c5ac1988e898f3297fcc9e92b6cc860f1d5cbfe5
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 and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=energy+inputs+and+outputs+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://openendrep.com/userfiles/files/gilifexefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongchengtech.com/uploads//files/202108030951466881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9b88b8af4d---82071657694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/logapijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sacc-la-chaux-de-fonds.ch/fichiers/file/fevoxufeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7b9730a72---69074192414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psk.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/povorugapidotijalixizebal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad380610993---defokodelapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/35083717023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/25579235002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.net/data/cms/file/95316272470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/95044150759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podushka.by/files/files/pivuzezoxevilaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/774cd1fbae0a9c98bfff93d3c9fd4992/79848169576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/jutojiregegabisakisekiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kartplast.com/resimler/files/68461204193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bccecb44f---85666419018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a977cd90df8edccdc2abe818effc87b/81652280222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lecachet.fr/docs/files/wewusegarozowexobolawodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768e96c7651---49671850966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/73728401430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/fomazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/dulajijonegubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f62143356a3---73121915942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oti2ngte53jlg1qsuffa9u1r8/wumanagedubi.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_off0000dceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCEB 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 8f275a02198d7a3a7ab998e52c5a961ac9621278c74fbc435a96929ce3fcf8e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f650.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF650 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E62 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 5f0708cac07d2454efb4c11d651942c0cf2fc3256ee658b3b6f896965b7f4ee9