Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e56dfd841c78451…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 133f08786b623dd022d20b950018e45e SHA-1: 889d6295fee5953fdde2b4a38ad759fa53d26355 SHA-256: 4e56dfd841c7845135db5b92d62c78ff23b5a7378c1afd88a63495f34591ae6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards the document being used to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

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=string+theory+in+a+nutshell+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/topuridewetovututogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/nirawimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/kajimakawob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regeneracion-capilar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/739861f3d07a1ac7077aebeae486dffb/lowabulifidevovoxijuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/95659965529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebottombillion.org/business_school/uploads/file/6068503713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otartufo.com/ckfinder/tartufofiles/files/gulusuvuvilafabapupezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24ef367599da30b42ff1e1df399ded19/17736882177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de4be7cfda9ae0a275308a5ed8fb65d/92762120232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe2240b19a---mebedudomuwezam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/90423596049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/juvetuwujodotumifajedun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/47002336696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/vulunegededavavajusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b88594dae7---sisipijodafiwixowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillandbrownfamily.com/clients/76964/File/1275911241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emons-verlag.net/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/72559611547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087da6c3fd35---sabikapolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhchemicalsfeed.com/upload/files/6242954106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b549932a4b---95988868436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/30040277786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe4e8b2b98---bimepegibemunilonaxiwokaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/gitutudedapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc7f85acc8---rolijemagopugizatabonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twilaw.com/files/files/kexobiwerupef.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_off0000d64a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD64A 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 23f0ff84de52f5a1e37c5738a2a5944c42c2026e336beffc5351c460fd852aad
font_01_sfnt_off0000f01c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01C 17664 bytes
SHA-256: a7116391bc5ca18cdcf790e3832af4c48898318640d2bef5d8c430874b40ef40
font_02_sfnt_off00011dc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1