Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ce643832a59f8ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-07-02 14:48:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cf805c1ed5cadd495c7fabc4898ef514 SHA-1: 005294c15695dada3f06607c7dfadaae40826ff1 SHA-256: 4ce643832a59f8eab5b0b6b567e408c28c1b4b2997bc72f892969fa63aed9f56
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest the intent is to redirect users to potentially malicious content hosted on these compromised sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/69998289024.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6a227a786---49758703734.pdf
    • http://alltechsro.cz/files/korafeg.pdf
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/99587261623.pdf
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b19f117e54939df6e8faf5be6c8eb94/33216310134.pdf
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/836f9021b78f61b038f43c4df41a8c06/72937274537.pdf
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/79818197071.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa975ac04e---78996403479.pdf
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f30bd6dae9---29638510765.pdf
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/malakupo.pdf
    • http://ddgasul.com/userfiles/file/31944181602.pdf
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ced42aa3d6fe70d729e4caedfda144a/mevipirifuxunijakikiwu.pdf
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23acf414de---xemodux.pdf
    • http://goksirkrupskimlyn.pl/img/upload/files/22869536961.pdf
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/fogakijupobeta.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836b50946e2---91840268260.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab8c8344237---bevarosavulovomulezunato.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32be8de11c432890d5bed2a587e89dcb/jabagedabuwofibo.pdf
    • https://tmtteks.com/files/dowuvusiregivegalet.pdf
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/41009422547.pdf
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d8014af6e---mewuneluxuvubinuragabusu.pdf
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/lonekuna.pdf
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b09f11622fa28965d0082766d29516ea/nudajemavakunulitijemez.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=acute+toxicity+example
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d676.bin
4b35582e58ee3ff37f023519ec1d234c722db78eb04dd5fb3e37bd86d8a48e63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD676 17412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001029b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1029B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011ab2.bin
3c35b8114e7301134fdf092c018f7acf6041b5d417332b8507b862f518897943
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB2 10460 bytes