Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d94be3ed6dcce80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-07-27 23:18:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d06eb7c59103d5959c71781aee4c8ab7 SHA-1: 509192f34992ac0c5577226880aa13748dd65948 SHA-256: 4d94be3ed6dcce80744894a10224113b824c2e94e2afbe56bb7b18dfe43a471e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, many of which appear to be hosted on disposable domains or utilize vulnerable CMS plugins. The primary purpose seems to be to lure users to these sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a9119f4ab62147be7d65c92c7df21f7/putakedesukubogufozejikot.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/443831a1d1b1878dd0d7ca2cec87ddfd/78551412648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/549c864d6245eece44a3b6d1ac883afb/58672555852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8dfc84dbf6029ef045eda4735b0239/latisemetigobuwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/45468161185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k87tskpu3r9khvehl54m73m0u4/dojiburusofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4e96e111d41252e7c53678208e45f27/44502164444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/joridovadugukixabijapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df8c47ce14---zevavibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0713940502---30237291184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/vifovogawotixamube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0a8228f55bb33c27017b5ba15c9e3a3/30520293018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc85923056afe38db723f385153a863d/beripur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tapestry.cz/images/file/files/debiwodofojebepumowevoraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/11368916191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/52385514881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/39702402668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73757a5b42236de2623696c4a2e39e0e/75953764738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt9f24gcui8ud2l25sl5nrbmff/ninazexaxikovanegabaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/19375949645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camionespanamericana.com/userfiles/file/81419503412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/kafozixunipomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a68757245c306409ef05f206c417fe8/64040589067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparationmobile.net/userfiles/file/jutulowofotowewevezotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webornate.com/viking1/uploads/files/14775125519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=analisis+de+grupos+sintacticos+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_off0000f723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF723 20976 bytes
SHA-256: 6b4ee844204a81635dbbd9e849dbf4ec6cd15f14b084002ae08264b48a55fd55
font_01_sfnt_off00012a71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A71 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 89495910a53df5f787bc0b7101f766f85d6905fef1efce4a0d64f123bd68eaa2
font_02_sfnt_off00014381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14381 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1