Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e7970e090c5de2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-10-03 21:28:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3bf14674b7c62a793862c4e921737bca SHA-1: 824c438bab1aaa56980654981656111cbb55a0bf SHA-256: 4e7970e090c5de2b999885f5eea649eabb86fdfe8cdee8d452c28841059d8e65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URLs and the detection results strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/likuxaremabawufajejute.pdf
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps-org.neurondevelopment.org/userfiles/files/62536392850.pdf
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/31988952484.pdf
    • https://vibingvibes.com/userfiles/files/lagujodojibakunujurewo.pdf
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614df9d1832c6---pimimetovunak.pdf
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c51e4f2dca05bae01e78fb7e4e436761/92833560540.pdf
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/46321843168.pdf
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bch6hhkjcl2jbe6spjguj7k136/4903466864.pdf
    • http://baovethanglongmb.com/upload/files/65576844938.pdf
    • https://vargyasnekonyveles.hu/kepek/other/file/12566708684.pdf
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87293131049.pdf
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/melinulowepuj.pdf
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/bujemaraguximotukopisere.pdf
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/lowujur.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142035276c89---48823690911.pdf
    • http://ksiclubcom.ksiclub.org/svnprojects/DHD/Source/images/files/xabof.pdf
    • http://studiozammuner.eu/userfiles/files/75396210643.pdf
    • http://funkyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65688083443.pdf
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/balabovuxulaniretipukod.pdf
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/sasaminebiluvixusit.pdf
    • https://grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96306261498.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=florence+welch+florence+and+the+machine
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ae8c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE8C 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c69e.bin
d4e4e4ba3b73ffb2fa550f6ba7d459c86a901e5a86aaa4961d8dd86ed252f3d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC69E 17180 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f303.bin
e30f00c36b5cff7a5a9035bc402d5b8e60eed8151e5b65ad588ac051f5c18172
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF303 10636 bytes