Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e0a07108089ce9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-21 19:15:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 034c822c56a2142f00bf1094a8119221 SHA-1: 35b86350f4ff0de093c835a9736c914fd3dff0ef SHA-256: 4e0a07108089ce9ba41e39793b086cd1e0fac7a347157bd8af58a4e903954b27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, detecting it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into clicking malicious links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic findings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a3d1e67fc---69746290922.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607890970267b---zumeta.pdf
    • https://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/busikelof.pdf
    • http://maility.pl/_ADRESuserfiles/file/76164455320.pdf
    • https://machinex-machines.com/UserFiles/File/74640375792.pdf
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/xewufut.pdf
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ceedaa35e---89130458289.pdf
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/tegekukavar.pdf
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be2043e26d---27143453395.pdf
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad558b7e42ad849be16d54318b0091fd/82889414078.pdf
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/mabefanivosam.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37beb742449b2d63d71dfc9656e9dc97/68942944387.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9295c1f4a---24365151021.pdf
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/wojikumo.pdf
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/59820455986.pdf
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a01ccbaab4---gururiv.pdf
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0c751942c---16825567061.pdf
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202106file/2021061606080770554.pdf
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bf78fd15062f2f5224bf0cbe895fe29/38655690046.pdf
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc8bf779572c1821797122f2f29f6810/vokilusiv.pdf
    • http://gialtour.it/themes/userfiles//files/76665822336.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=brian+bradie+numerical+analysis+solutions
    • 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_off0000e764.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE764 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff7b.bin
646e31cbdf8d25bbf372e658c7c80d5e6d231e2fa4e0e79c2031dd4ee3b1a631
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF7B 10940 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000118d3.bin
e3b11a91026118ecacd30275fe7feb880f5d0a7657181b30c4da37e844d0efad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D3 19052 bytes