Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e7cefef8d0f57a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.7 KB Created: 2021-06-09 01:44:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ccabeebdf40ad937682696c2bb4f808e SHA-1: 96dda3ca85515a1686d1582dc6460a18904cf590 SHA-256: 4e7cefef8d0f57a846fd8297506b6949d3b347ea2ff546c0caf7daea9e8a221e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest a lure for downloading content, potentially malware, under the guise of a 'creepypasta download'. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=super+mario+64+creepypasta+download PDF link annotation
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/46112594300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2a3b4109b---90969893533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/tazegerixipiwemabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acbb34bf9d6---zujiwolutapepumimepufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac877b131dc---morexumitixedefoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4c70989506---6471494474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63ee899049---jodawojetolizaladuvurufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/vedereduvuperasabogisix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93aa3afc8baa46120be997f3bb633c4c/29917293791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/550fe10ad67d96d6bab71dee6b0e8b56/vikavurofedosuzijinigogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1087a9097c---dopovobusijadefemevagezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/volurimojidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movementlab.dk/userfiles/file/86034613773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2a23ba617166c24316c727bcd0ccdb/bovobilikilaxetedebowiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00018936.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18936 9304 bytes
SHA-256: e30d80f2a4160ce83ae23bb8619ad52a0d5c061139f91d98092bcd198a7f636d
font_01_sfnt_off0001a836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A836 5760 bytes
SHA-256: d78e9fcd4d83657230e3543ed3927ee496d81b285f00665e63014338980bc037
font_02_sfnt_off0001bbd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BBD5 12348 bytes
SHA-256: 2a725e66019d647c20d5c6de4eee0d21ad2f55bbb520d99bb9b956f331e281df