Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ad5e4dc0d961e4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-08-24 14:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 14a74ce9b27fda640c5e6ce2732017f6 SHA-1: fcc74e095cfbcb5d43506ae50f86d20cae3b0940 SHA-256: 4ad5e4dc0d961e4ed4ced54781972c2a069266138212c4fc69fa9601ea709a3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress installations and other potentially malicious domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87eeb1e306a62f9032b8a7ac0ab4223b/58228561522.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9073e025a5---66859166838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8ea5d8ce0---39864671905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/kigalezoloju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/51048374160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b09616d92ac---18006711877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parvazyab.com/basefile/api203/files/guvekijoberorefek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipzip.com/userfiles/file/vewatowetexubisodadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/80813811651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56432726123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8omi8iseff8gjvsfs5d8go8rp1/4496242066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd3ffb1866---37795418246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667f1c7c39ecc18626892356907abde5/zozitudawigumixodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4c05bdb59f---27910659167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210717_F022096D11C9E0FB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomnhenryanderson.com/clients/8/8a/8a1068334c160bb49438aafe8043afff/File/bigemikajimesigejuvunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa6861d25a42e9e62298f88844243615/35899086524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/53030139546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9190ed384f635e0c286aeb151768bef7/18541435356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/lutawina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/7442845633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45179256761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/18312714668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/36267190017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/24733343171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=free+cherry+master+manualsPDF 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_off0000bef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEF7 10472 bytes
SHA-256: fb9bed6c0fef7cdb0a619dd86619bad8b1b99bbc5f3568a330beb24a55c2fb05
font_01_sfnt_off0000d69a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD69A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eeac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEAC 16212 bytes
SHA-256: 073a4fd909f4528b7b0923af94183370816f9ed746ca94e52fe64f3dd8970629