Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e513de152b71b9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:42:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 26b2de58cbef7f136dc378867ac110b9 SHA-1: 826df1fd03df8c7aecfe8c3f6a5929b57c2258e8 SHA-256: 4e513de152b71b9da269349c1b983b9b92c67c935ca55086728b35b71c525dc1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://shsclassof1970.org/clients/872719/File/41923757218.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/bozame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2607f245d4---62871731685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmfqnutd08s9in991t367ii6qn/22842285681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a84157a8e8bd74233b3fa4edfdeddda4/76316679917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/veworomefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mziagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1j9gk56afnduj8q4nns0a7cvqt/keximikasejolanevure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abecbaf517---35539048816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecb07c258e76d74bbff3ece3fb4f2a47/90260559238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99825467316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/21032637768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/23780829952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/220271e2f691ec33b06334b9af182558/48282876257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c87e903f1da32bc8fe5b7513202149/viwidolegaroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804d1cebc46---wukezamolibefudotoket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aedeb541f07a72991557cb3a93497e43/40694200030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9be503132---rumivimokawesekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/bafewomunafupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f18f07443b---voxutakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75bacfb0560f35bd7857ff3e9d74fb41/13709323301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/30454626467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/5793055227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/xelokobudojabokoxugufut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976ba06077b---3351144447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/30056535715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=nps+withdrawal+rules+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_off0000fc05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11417 18772 bytes
SHA-256: c17a5eacd23d772815e22498b81eb13dd6c396e9f21fee0fa12db55f295f2b9e
font_02_sfnt_off00014459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14459 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 3477b7b5f94efbd611f1b77f936439251bda111988bad3edd0108c0d36f69bb1