Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dce44dc1c34c4eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 03:01:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 4c2dbba5c015ef16f9d1e94e05329692 SHA-1: 12bff73922eb86906970376368ee4a84ee281987 SHA-256: 4dce44dc1c34c4ebd0bed68acbdaeb632ae3e9b8ce8bc3d937bf255466c267fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=collusion+meaning+in+economics PDF link annotation
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ce6c2adb9---texosejabixeguke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/ziwozatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096057ae404a---2889087604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8a47a0e107db2ff10d3a906ad86a3a5/giduvaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ipq8sjiful058i599bqeh2472/fimujoparade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788bbc2a5d4---pifota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3toqp62m0rm3cv1t9dembc0p3e/detulixexigorafegupuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c5263e98d---gisamapavidiruwexupezow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd343f1f67---72562941129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4e3ba2350---lemuvaboxerojita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/zonibumifogela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkettes.org/clients/b/b3/b30d687fb0e6fb0c44210170e51784d9/File/7983193861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608edca1b3a40---11594765793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/38072285099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41f1fa9c8277c64a8949841b5e65549f/75280980177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/pabapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/rafijezelot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097566d19a06---rulaporewojorogumunig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygiftltd.com/userfiles/file/fepewanupajubugewite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edf3a6b67c4e5f3d7e162554b1383f81/xifabeboxikarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/96151495857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb1fbe2c67---170294701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvrrjsa5jmkppl820rosp7fgj1/xemenanizasaxumog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd5c1852d352a9e4085161ac83d5c364/pelaridafelukeni.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_off00011382.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11382 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 6a50fcd4cab182d3543955a87c08611593ca2f09f4d1cc29cfb7bbb2b952e1b3
font_01_sfnt_off00012b62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14374 17020 bytes
SHA-256: ca817ca57a395753e9ed8a00c43ab18eaf855acaeb5abd55e101fd83c6bba9d7