Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e163c8eb0e6e558…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 18:55:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 1eeb5c7a87d27388e48577989f65e59f SHA-1: 62f3976d4b349672ea834c3a19e1d8dac2193c46 SHA-256: 4e163c8eb0e6e558c93d1469c6130e9cdbb9ca7a96f3660e4277947c2da518ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+fix+your+volume+on+android PDF link annotation
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2lo4vilc2f21b2a9vfa2dlqq6d/xatamogisovubifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/jixafagekojupotoxusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a90d1220a3---53983124436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ca460f9e5291d95189d68ed56dae6e9/97328413376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/bogunowudikefumorule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/butidadiburodoxekutivuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146547818b35---dizamaziti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/42993904574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e715ad5fac---45709956064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/kodaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volandovia.it/public/fileeditor/file/79924915794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.net/contents/files/venarumodumidonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf1a3372906c3bc4a7999f842d5fab76/zaxumupizuzuzulizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/Upload/files/pivinodebiziwobolafitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetsaban3watnuea.com/UserFiles/file/kutaxawukakizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultrabeauty-ff.ru/userfiles/file/632523893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.net/contents/files/40549631602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/wexikoxoputitogadoxupote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skene.es/userfiles/file/bapakomened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5thaveseniors.org/userfiles/file/99540082963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/69968042261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/83264616183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaluzipro.ru/public/userfiles/file/gusikeriweso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://permargi.com/files/galeria/files/rodotaboguxakagaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dopodozalagozuzogufuwor.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_off0000d107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD107 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e91e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91E 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce26cbb0ce6a91a1fc38df752dcbb9f8f9744e5bf49709836fd8ea2e4f46d3e
font_02_sfnt_off00010204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10204 17168 bytes
SHA-256: e3ed103580e56457465e6afaaeb739f6f44868b839af4df6bafddd5baab7a474