Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e01068001fe477e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 15:27:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 946f8ac24fb54cf7ff0622f2b15f8f01 SHA-1: fd27d70b6459895ec45d3789df35bc5683779105 SHA-256: 4e01068001fe477e11ed36b0de1841811abe3039511d33f60042b12613cc2f9d
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 a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it likely contains malicious content or exploits. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious PDF files. The presence of external URIs and a high ML score suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9790

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://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b986c97e2d9---50264408976.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/28075368392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/mizanijigeronojalutuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be71d6c641---7818882736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/joxireva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/wuboximobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1ef2ced4c6ca44a0b57c2834ec766a4/pabesexemezadepovibujetow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e08974b0518---nosifisilagawodisilawot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e09926bf58---2969624101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utsc6bpe466n71rbhrfa8i69qf/40538988673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/tesamazosuvalotumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/kikekezifamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9qig7kh465g296t747bnhv64t/81574630272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b667dd69a3e---31891450726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/vituwesoraselez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b4f27da8b---4029646699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/757c944769d613e83aafc60ea39d9ad0/8101742488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070137dc6e88---tesuwelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llsindia.in/FCKeditor/file/58821061693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5daa5fc64e5d7d22b3b3d96d1b114b7/jaladokanajajafanif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmflower-kkc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63807653682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0r8r1gni1vsf5uugpnoqq96p6s/xavetatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861abc63fce---73369648701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/3970588917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/tatidetosasijexuwitoviwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/76193743192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=numerical+methods+with+c%2B%2B+programming+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_off000129dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129DC 19332 bytes
SHA-256: 3a0b4c0553d69a3ff066e7470a9e0bc235b790f1459c13de39ad37670484bf00
font_01_sfnt_off00015ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CA4 11228 bytes
SHA-256: b437ac2fecefc274a09d77ad3da5381562a2a9affcd71444df783eb2aab92e52
font_02_sfnt_off000176a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1