Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4542be2046f86fba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 26fda7f9d6ec7a05bbadd46486067694 SHA-1: 323b4325c666801ba3045bf04158750896c84ed8 SHA-256: 4542be2046f86fbab57bdfbe379159c6554d1531ca6fbedafa455fbd2374ee43
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites that host further malicious PDF files. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f549873b3393d5161e0a3cd06537b46/dovotopadilil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab67399cb8c---gexabexuramimijag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210629121717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apvn.info/userfiles/file/sewalupagajulivuvejonub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user///file/_0607616001627627311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimomoroni.it/userfiles/files/52324443863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerezolorente.com/files/cerezolorente/_repo/file/78596657541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents//files/26156192002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhoffordphotography.com/temp/files/file/7445266130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/newobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1621600954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073eff9b4407---dofezalejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/piwapedenosexusarizejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cal.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f74dab58d88b95cd7d62e3837f8f141c/xibib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obv7f24cgno8viqc5s6tv23kok/xelaxexizarikopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ktsi42sm4q3hcv4u694ttba3f/bogalejunotenunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnnc.vn/img-hdmedia/files/xodesagixogubaporanegizov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2cb6317df9---kapudesozawivosonerukube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/48280170976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/pitogipelozavutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/pizuwafukupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbfe2c1ac32---5009493618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palami.by/images/file/mefejunitefajako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/dosofewewifemalawaxapetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=another+name+for+norepinephrinePDF 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_off0000d062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD062 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE879 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 22e32699be506ea9d242d4ec06f8296e30ac9ace9ea03fd8e579bf3228dd7c56
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC2 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 5b400767707a62330122678b1bc8d8d903097efbc5f2fb2f09110666e42c977a