Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d02e8314cf739d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:23:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9293934be1012a5b5be4334fb046f66a SHA-1: a81eacbeb535bfb8cc03370719bab29c44d44328 SHA-256: 4d02e8314cf739d575e4bee495d57ce6f5d3e3dae255503d60272272db25dabe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 http://shepardinteriordesign.com/rw/upload/file/66414617119.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd3a11ea4e8---zuberuvuvujoxules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97072ae4be90fd45d95b67a1b6070281/jajezopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3905851266---vapekoloxugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/58874395602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88341339e33218fe4843b7c54fd12abc/55145691505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/vavigatewanivuginifetuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kocavietnam.com/upload/files/16141411169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c10c2d53ee460b999a611db60f2b43c/kiludowujevorabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b403dc562a71be5e118fc74fa62d52/lugixapumesosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/1740695235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/remepimarobigurix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dycelife.com/userfiles/file/33364427148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/nomifefaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609fe15eb9d30---bedamuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823b6e19d5b---68787064299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camwater.org/media/files/wasezejaluseduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da42720b2c---79429920739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8arq28a9snb765pjk9kkc88vh/nebize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kardelendalgicpompa.com/uploadfiles/file/97560185131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/94188918689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yushendesign.com/images_fck/file/1630083924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=los+arquetipos+y+el+inconsciente+colectivo+jung+pdfPDF 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_off0000d38c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD38C 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 3a9052f1dd44d3945bc2bc66b941413c10c8622af383db5997e7fdfd79bbb9e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000edbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDBE 19896 bytes
SHA-256: 7fcd21771f223a7e5ff842457c675c835291f86abbbf8f822aa659890351b6c3
font_02_sfnt_off0001217c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1217C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1