Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e5728b4aee1375a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 11:02:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f4c7e6f1acbc0d01756da650bb8f9565 SHA-1: 7a1168f6457762a10905b9a871632c387dcec364 SHA-256: 4e5728b4aee1375a09a1f8571254df6dab76656028d57ac3967523b7b2fc6c76
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to link farms hosted on what appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The primary function seems to be redirecting users to malicious or phishing content, potentially disguised as legitimate documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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 https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327da56fe67---3066539504.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tele-klass.ru/i/upload/files/fawenoxakuburibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d6c9e4c0e---gevupifekixisuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.pl/users//file/kikisufevudusidafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8gmifqru921cthjv1prg5eti0/kiwigitolifabeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/46208015845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f3dd204e103f74a195c7473c073f2b6/35535297752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/joguradiziva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniradioweb.info/userfiles/files/negiguvusuneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da472548e3---vikole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/mezovukujofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m909ls4qurmgvoqd97m9lr93m0/mewadelelopibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/27082445204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saaegfpolis.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87249034337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drosamahetta.com/userfiles/file/2925720631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7a08a4983---5473408464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e56963be074e39d323feef2bec8c96c/suzumerotinewologibewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86tlshgdan3risaeqnn6manq7c/33290093930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlicentral.com/images/authors/file/jatugimuparomaxinafukane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d186bb04767---sokavininadogesaxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611279a968f0b---5399524830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b67148c5fc1---vimobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--ob0bjxt9h99icicrvkksa421cwwp7hiv4d6a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kasujokakoriwafajorusuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=differenza+tra+sunniti+e+sciiti+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_off0001209e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1209E 10608 bytes
SHA-256: f755523bb088beca78999f1f5877961e7b4a7da96613ef79d8d90ddf399e4ac5
font_01_sfnt_off0001390e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1390E 18476 bytes
SHA-256: a0583cf66755b372cedf8be3482ffda5a9fc5e793c2082f29e04c36f75b8a800
font_02_sfnt_off000169da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1