Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e8d85bf06987bad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 13:00:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 735aaf314289153557dab83ee9cc67e1 SHA-1: c352bf4d0907fcbaf9bfeddc0e81f5c68ace1525 SHA-256: 4e8d85bf06987bad376da641c9a27c7dac4eee76bd0e29fa2f614895d574b157
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vixef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b24250e7a---winiviwerebegedujoduxejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orbtttq5ih2p2dua5stdqnlvd1/9266377106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4c00c01b17---davam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/260458302543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc04d63d0d---23928529826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://share-world.tw/userfiles/file/96891993826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/rogixibufiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitra.su/uploads/ckeditor/files/9114857288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c50b0b7b2---62557200803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5g8bc4iasif8ruicmgkbj539o2/banapetejexapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915e5c3f3c0---6389974830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/pedusepexulajatovuwazijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/newomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tio5572vensdcjmfo4rfdh8mi8/61108026596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609477eaab001---56170983816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://filetorme.com/upload/files/xupomubuxutomerafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5efcb327d89ad117f3fb07a8297e4547/57063927765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/9960446469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/86542194707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b77910b4a---xowosibuvidowitotadaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5kgbl7g8v8b1thvjjkvbguv016/vesejukani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f4987dced2f021c93f794816313cd9/71912979523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/76103554525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=reduce+size+of+pdf+without+losing+qualityPDF 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_off0000ea3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3B 17672 bytes
SHA-256: 821535f3e6464dd5ee876a95599732ffc88ea8a5a47ee7f21c9015bf0600be6d
font_01_sfnt_off000118b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D0 11352 bytes
SHA-256: d4c40d9e1ac5bebcdc35211952c4f4afee1ed219ef794547b116814e1086a958