Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e8f1f3de99b4425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-07-05 23:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 664b461ffb1a4003b5091dd94ed3929e SHA-1: 32e1b90a42b3c04015aba2fee161170d594f255b SHA-256: 4e8f1f3de99b44256cd812725c14484aa39fc9d9c76c36f9ab5db369c07a9245
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely intent to lure users into downloading further payloads or engaging in fraudulent activities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9934

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=after+we+collided+online+stream+english PDF link annotation
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/woporajujaroborom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdekidupendonmhs7bafu9vbi3/2874714420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b3ce9424d---1912267767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienmaythanglong.org/uploads/files/xigixegumubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc5cede537f---68542329590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7875093ae---56050075836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb9747f0ae---wikopuxofobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/404d2b0eac87c652c74def85e2c6de64/13046747852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lambanghieuquangcaogiare.net/vietkiendo/upload/file/wozudanulugug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr5lchm50bhvgkbq8fhfamc400/mikasozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93cd869465---nilegumogarotopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pusevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/46674297856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7q0nnhkc7fct7g6a0kro98n3fr/seralobazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/dulaxoliwesutanusewelibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e958dd30f---tafataxemokulixemexegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607612d55f295---36051971931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098456b609e5---9681511890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996b3e09b56---18436903146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/fopimilazagugelezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3197d825a6db89fa7a1e36729a74fd3/11005433846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a537782f836---63915349081.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD7 16576 bytes
SHA-256: df3eedeae3976c41e4b0d0cf4ca3e03e2c0a174ce5548a6b09fbf00093765c32
font_02_sfnt_off0001030c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1030C 23436 bytes
SHA-256: 05f00747f768ebfb19732e4ff4176540255a5dcbac8493aacf99f9bb71d7be73
font_03_sfnt_off0001401a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1401A 2248 bytes
SHA-256: 66561d23f2eb1695a39bb9f88b80d9683298b042bd99b179776941a2f3878adb
font_04_sfnt_off00014a03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A03 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 751eed64135964a3ec6d2fc5a5f429358aa8298ba33279350cbac16b39ca7b61