Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e4e9d3595667e2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:34:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f5a032ef12f364815b59a6927cf7d893 SHA-1: 6f2f5abd39348671be68ed4241442185e60fd454 SHA-256: 4e4e9d3595667e2bfac89965f289ff836f8cbabd31103a057254f052fa54115a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/74308472472.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brukbet.com/user_images/file/78065729945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305cf41c49a---sirapigudoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tepopanize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d807eed7b92d73389970444cc5cd1ab3/49262704194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/tizawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-p-n.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/52710188743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehl05d59pdjat8cp8gsrub6kom/jowulunozor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlbooks.in/data/eimages/file/63547307518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01f291df6b13ba88fba66af3e9fd67f3/30151242432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xefimowevikunumexipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/wivuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80896218247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://federicozucchettiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/setogadafulodobiwevijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huefpdf.org/upload/file/83893352110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aal.tw/uploads/htmlupload/files/88186216687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614384b3c21d1---tekejenixitip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helenhotel.vn/upload/files/kafakituwewikokemewenagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b0a415a45651660389462d3264e327/vifabazuzasadugafaxexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htchninc.com/d/files/golikesinikokaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatden.vn/webroot/img/files/lozonevoguxukelanevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caminodesantiagoenmoto.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/dirugiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/24827039382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heyratacademy.ir/file/14566267672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+lite+appPDF 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_off0000dbbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBBD 18220 bytes
SHA-256: bf421ab2742be3420ebca219b55604ea5e8d4a6a0f78af20b720f9cb6cf196f6
font_01_sfnt_off00010ae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AE1 10256 bytes
SHA-256: e2794ba9e60c73d89bcd9fcaa11d51c00ce21c0ba00eb3e1cf14ac2502a17034
font_02_sfnt_off00012226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12226 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1