Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e5b201bbe56a677…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:09:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ee8dbedcd432849694051c4dbe6da82f SHA-1: 32c5a4df0928eee782fdda7556a204fb8a618c11 SHA-256: 4e5b201bbe56a677ad7b05d9f7faa87f00ee4308a8bbb90a90f0e62989564f94
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external resources, some of which are hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/72858456390.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://megaeventoa100.com/clients/f/fa/fa03970f5feff24be7017758158681b9/File/83710606647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/46624346992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073519461f15---30379159731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alcantara.cz/data/file/12157851946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e524278073---834732958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/37525574878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/85029383678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.de/uploads/media/13831997047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210519130942802883066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757f0cde274---sowepora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m4krichmond.org/clients/3/3b/3bf4c986be49c21931b3574e72fd8103/File/1320092887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djecijagarderoba.me/userfiles/file/jevixirotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kct5s6mbkdis7fl74qn9r3v8v0/fewirukuzajamafedogodilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf837b37b247a2cd89eb0749f9fbf602/39796332264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ae0334fc34de94f96ae177a5ed3a5de/kiwotinipunakunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9c8d308ee---40749111365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/71685186612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbff128f06aed5f6df354d146d8f2d85/13557881298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab90f557e97---vosurekonusozavinamexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1b93c07724b30b12ce9dcf71805716f/lurotakepusixaxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9fc0ba98d---90845026733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/1697141810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijagupofuwageravoxinog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2021woods.com/clients/b/b0/b0e6999751250b7f6f06d89f33415bdd/File/92972707440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202107082134516744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=apraxia+da+fala+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_off0000da3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3E 9952 bytes
SHA-256: 8b2fe7933c52cf3920d3eafac727921ee90cc3b209c85e50e0e69f6c20d123f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF046 17860 bytes
SHA-256: f915c8275455746281aba2b84f19d5c1d2430b52a2554ddd044f6dd7c67965c0
font_02_sfnt_off00011ea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1