Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e14613ba9b2d405…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:58:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0092b28158fb6333bafdda07cc948538 SHA-1: ed21e09566fda8c7cef15611a13d550c212c3146 SHA-256: 4e14613ba9b2d405d071cf7f829f36d22f85602c3da6970064df4e095c4c0261
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The primary attack vector is likely Spearphishing Attachment, leading to exploitation for client execution via the linked content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/94830345277.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090297e495cd---dizone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609880139c544---doboderawimodagaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/87373310748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/42184942236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/8503650999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31a5e59de878f56f4e31964b41bb29a9/lirifidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac030eb813---jewazelujapolojorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaperferiesantamariagoretti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/pibokarof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/88377034247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c8d39ce0979df34a82530b1b98a100/86706874077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7956d89f6cf9de9396c00c774b50da/3528401664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2qd750li2d16i8ssmat4uu0es/73001150420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe6c0630880b5ec7e3c861e2519d0be/53597564229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbbbf9b014ac8c8d480c50b05e0476af/43724986435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilkyoukais.com/Images/Media/files/91041294702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcff3bba172---jiwexoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8e0upf5s7fh3ul18joj97a8a7/88329092480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/wulurowiboguvetavuvuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/83454969001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985c475934d---wobezebakoxopegupesifuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/sasimafupabupimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1726628676050781e954bf213d90e99/resinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2697fc759559c7f78a6c9c571418dfa8/niwubutekifowofefobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=zodiac+signs+monthPDF 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_off0000f2a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A8 17348 bytes
SHA-256: b25609475eb702a02a09bde083b8f79801ea67d9c13ae92eb5172593b83e2ee5
font_01_sfnt_off0001202c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13843 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 1dd091066e4a6690f1239beb9c3cce9d1596b990df3424e13ce68155f034d752