Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ce00b2c30977a8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 17:51:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f25680c36e9b88e1b17ebf3ba13d585b SHA-1: 84b145cfbba0084b22e8378fde1e0c6bcae5021b SHA-256: 4ce00b2c30977a8cd5b0589caeba4ded93560fbff2bc01e1bf9695d9effe4f7b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The 'SE_ENABLE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to enable content, a common tactic for malware droppers to bypass security measures and download further payloads from the identified URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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 http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b89012fce---jafunanekegipepuzenaz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17m8vqevbi50hhde6fkji8mvsn/59608861292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/gewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9nm8guv5kh9iif3sk5ivtr08n/83163131260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/87369264979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/tetuluvazafoxuzafegezilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigsvatcharasith.com/userfiles/file/27207635233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e2b1dd39b---zufovulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4868bb64ef---peresiwogerujirabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/nubiwofawagojuruzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/92938096678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/pixivafubegopukudoxolakoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a673440088a---88011275094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0d2b0ee03---88514519194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/zanolunerebomujadari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8864116d6797d34c7a5e7f00ba31cdf5/gajibibegunufefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9889c761f---98381560063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyshairsalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7p92b3pqbr4j5irlssa2snv5k/sabidonurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b849487bd---90381823737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3712b2d46---matun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=njdep+well+searchPDF 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_off0000e4b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fccb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCB 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 8cc8666497fa4219e18489bce376ea24a703ba8ce8cb2071ba4741fc4c6c5271
font_02_sfnt_off000129de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DE 10392 bytes
SHA-256: d5b98738e9d2815f9a123d895a5263983a3759e363c5df932dee1a659a8d1095