Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e9e651563723086…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 20:34:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: f7d95919ae35174607de059ef843cde7 SHA-1: d78e8b7c37e5fa1de3e30d6cddda18fcddb93c7d SHA-256: 4e9e65156372308617897838d49cfec3c907e85a79cb6841c67436508e4a8a2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings confirm the presence of a link farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d11fda6654---womevaxuvaradajunipewe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8462c66f8e78a169fa2e776e7f774f9f/pogavakovebogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2d9fa7107---titefopepevasonuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77293d2999---88036032394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d3fe5d506---31429785202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba80530a5fa---96016808085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e4bd71436---vexajafemalavenefunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed0b5e0da1d6f998b49cb701c8af85d5/soxevomixupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u031giben5gaamqclc9p05t1q6/24907000707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupenahno.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6fl1pjdpm1s5k4ld3bnuf8b4q/22070563857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4acf8b9a0c75150e5ba7c8a2dccd3ea/33767662018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/sabix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southfieldhigh1973.com/clients/2/27/27a5067865c8334ad4a5a1fd7642c928/File/mepuxaribakimebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210503190149101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ieqovnn4tv501nrg9qvm552e6/lixixuxisisijuxufimur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/lufosokodopekogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/badff3f2872056d0b05ec7d90a9d46f9/supimirimasuviloxakizix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070197a4c051---27493185723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/filarakikalipodaxexanofus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210624125925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6b67c1125---53388824554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ghnservizi.com/file/motowibegufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=definition+of+different+types+of+anglesPDF 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_off00014bd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000163e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x163E4 22296 bytes
SHA-256: a3fd1515dd399a24cce096b17b2be662846bed5e7c6a48b2a2019c4d41a8b3c7
font_02_sfnt_off00019f25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F25 10788 bytes
SHA-256: e6afd0f8b6b2ada2932f748b0b48bfffb73ab26ad58d69d04c521648986038d2