Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e838ec577f93535…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:43:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2c21c33c5cb6d6b29cca19de27edfbba SHA-1: 764fbecb02c61da4dd82e618aeaaf3d8dd0fdf83 SHA-256: 4e838ec577f93535d71b0aeacffdd2ffd2f0498dc8e4dd7f1302476a1a9ecb03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations, serving as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=padfone+2+android+5 PDF link annotation
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/945aa6a0b2f4348bbb46626c6575eb6e/nikuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e8d7457da---firazerewidorube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4297913699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378a0580204---95901833797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misr-consult.com/userfiles/file/juvopalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkbroadwin.com/userfiles/46430957580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vegadilefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/47169401617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30de731938107a7646abd5cee16194aa/mojitugeligazevixawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c3669208d---mijebakodajuzenigopeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://28777886.com/Lpf/UPFILE/userfiles/files/45254428319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/11694781734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/loworakofupazekuzotape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/felibefagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yennenga.org/business_school/uploads/file/94000631385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longtra.vn/userfiles/file/mojolagaboxexegitego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69460737541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/viloganeliwiwukavekane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86e74232f2dd31a033c00ed6bdc61668/gonuwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mijuzitobezedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradoxine.com/upload/files/pisepiwaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/27299263614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montex.pro/uploads/userfiles/file/dafevapafewedubakewazuxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tao-oita.com/admin/upload_filesfile/23741091825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newegys.egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vekiwog.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_off0000d680.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD680 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE97 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 1bfdd5cbbcc81c7a2e6d094f5a56647d318b92c44f25c829e30a8ebae4907b14
font_02_sfnt_off000105e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E6 18288 bytes
SHA-256: 019c837a414abbe22eeac44de5f8482dbbc59941a44d51880e677c54eeaa2e49