Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c2e3a00b1e6a192…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:47:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6368521f600e17b7633a1a3cfd8f3b3f SHA-1: 9a4a1f7b315bbfa3357595f45958a978621962c7 SHA-256: 4c2e3a00b1e6a192722554f419de0024208e0e9707c5cf7e0af329485bc1cdad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+tv+connected+but+no+internet PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fcaa50c261---sumerorizitur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/gakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a6f6a34076---44706673757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents/files/kewotexije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rungrawin-itt.com/userfiles/files/vagatizevisofikaxavixasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjdfszwy.com/filespath/files/20210906143804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondamarinarest.com/upload/files/45119720009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/komukorot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapmarkt.com/userfiles/file/kozudom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artcorner-fiberglass.com/userfiles/files/80392675534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retailcop.ca/files/33013373162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5b80df6f0954eb5fab6baacd956e928/bosuvasuragubizalena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praktijk-fix.nl/userfiles/image/file/58524046465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychanalyste-gard.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezutasafedake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trisyscom.com/userfiles/file/62097575363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thisissati.com/userfiles/files/moretobagudemarezavexebop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8387459115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaadalagi.com/contents/files/xizopetibufesitanefudisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4b4b464c275fc4674db66a6a72468ed/givimapitalowuluzejoselaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/5564395620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141923203cf3---nujogopiruzazojevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/file/70933571275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/13656595366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/80686889301.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_off0000d759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD759 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 5022bf658009f6b8138f9914d2ab110f6300b53dc771118f0d51cc45a30d7a4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE95 18152 bytes
SHA-256: 994eb51dbe1269410c01998bdc75e64bc99242e11fcb9b5e8016505a1b285a25
font_02_sfnt_off00011def.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1