Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e9dd691a219950a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-09 23:41:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: eab45ee6805a06e9fc704b2403d24c9c SHA-1: 50cf994205a9c89dbe92fe440c3e8c1f610746d0 SHA-256: 4e9dd691a219950a815a2dca9d637f9b9c4f57408b67fc255ef7e23121351711
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights this behavior, indicating the document's purpose is to serve as a deceptive landing page or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/sepaxisovubot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ruishikaishi.com/upload/content/files/2021/07/20210724235823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusbetaja2.com/contents//files/guxivubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nofudoludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesetnews.com/images/fckeditor/file/fudawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/92025687920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/kakisigepuxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119pump.net/d/files/xeruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/96040184786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/sedetiwunebipetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a399c4ea4ba645a37a7f9e0d26b5f943/4034220941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e24b11b4be1e008f2feec8e582d222ed/bexoxivizexadaxotisowepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okazdedziecko.pl/_files/Media/file/8034336531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/40731151130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vevt3562fp0jr64vtb0fpb2h7b/25588346662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/2438149177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59464616236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6f406o49j7ughj4al1270kpr3/91461561344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/35071360346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/laposor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a37a99e6a9747e0ca36abe35057d46a5/lubujola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvmnn91a0d1bs2s3hmr1lcf4ds/novajekemokekejapivojewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qif5jd5sphiefinc6gq9hlpkbd/15567807997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161098a16b87ad---61631526869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+plot+of+contents+of+a+dead+man%27s+pocketPDF 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_off0000ebed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBED 10904 bytes
SHA-256: daba18969113c27fde9c2d51cddb15e24625945b4535e460eb13be42d4ddec2d
font_01_sfnt_off00010509.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10509 17028 bytes
SHA-256: f36a06d3e8661e7f9e73b923d4333faff499a6ba64aec42dfc68da88fd54cd4d
font_02_sfnt_off000130da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1