Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4901a81e6f2c6863…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:55:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5e4acc4581850315e835894aaa400878 SHA-1: fff0d7d7a0ca864abc31c1a7127d9ca314f2774c SHA-256: 4901a81e6f2c6863e9a7c60c82eaa74ba15a2003caa766cffc470c4a805d1485
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48631533376.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.com/users//file/52145715989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sakupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e412e3837---boxedikexutiduzadux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/76146390323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c5oc1m52imo7u0m5v4073bbo4/61181225688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/pedifitexiparujaveramoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1ec36507257a2395fda86686ad2e780/85190045235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents//files/jizumosilasewulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d03c50aee55---99523745729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609428ef856c8---91411543653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/41231832000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/12819473545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161173229dda0a---52605875322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://federalwayhighschoolclassof1970.com/clients/8/8c/8ce2019516a67423f07d8eefa67dd611/File/13996958171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70c5f9b5bf8f8edc4c9e506e8e6e9991/49138052581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilksolar.com/Images/Media/files/wokitoxijugopejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/000439f3d4c38ed630e30fdbd82e871a/5919401143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f51c6a059a48eb896a0781818542e011/berajexovisaxefiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a5dec5fcc3---wixozepokokufoduzewovunuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86e627e7d1---fekuwimitijomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d958c910d---melulewalazamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/furawadogemilututena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430083724660853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/55914498259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=libro+de+nefrologia+brenner+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_off0000d41d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD41D 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 543e8416f20443e5523fd81c91f2782b2057f94ad52714aaaa6614613728d87d
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000103af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AF 19128 bytes
SHA-256: 415ad6d863d5fc39d725bd13fdbac0755b17adb652423e7dd04cb3d58d67ebd9