Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a1ed5a287f06c17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-07 10:02:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0a0319a08ba4b0af3b21a01659d0d4e0 SHA-1: 6eb1f9b88991069f3bee563e1a1c69f7dbb863a2 SHA-256: 4a1ed5a287f06c172c3ad94136e361fcc3d5d8e5407176b0124705f5b4d263fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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=dramatic+irony+in+the+odyssey+book+17 PDF link annotation
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/88307830853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966eefa3bc3---97301347987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99d5340d5a27f282253184378c3ef7ea/15614113087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a678576ac7c---zosasadujifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nodka.eu/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokukezabebumepejimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f6797dec5---58635533592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc122a2711---buwoladibaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607505a9d5741---92200768882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833566e4ea0---26829489035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/lexoxolebaxunuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a982ae1ca8---rivufukipidixegaluwamuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9snk4s4d48039pt3b8oaakgok0/motixufevuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1c13a3a0a0---sojupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/34069576359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1cc7a4fea7---benemorusurovawavema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/dovufunuguxivakudug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c13c19e605a---kewabilodatijeduxedujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/11888834814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/43756738429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5168a5058a---wumetukozepiwulabevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161077b5a7ff61---jisafawumifefebotisen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/34034998939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/34141697435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/garopuvowuwogexuzenanam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflbdq.com/uploads/file/241718004013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769dd5f14d7---63309015630.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_off0000e4c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C4 11040 bytes
SHA-256: c5022207efc1ba0507ec1d71e1345aba9858e9d8232f9949c7192cc50afbb2df
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE63 16920 bytes
SHA-256: fde78558caebac1b2527d5f5bfc4ce96e57bd54b45ac88a9d55eb9f13aba4130
font_02_sfnt_off00012a1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1