Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e9ee1adad81c83c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-15 10:06:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5aa8cb7e949982f9fddadadd233e701c SHA-1: eef2168334eebaf4940a96c5031c5bdd268f561b SHA-256: 4e9ee1adad81c83c169b71dea0968d487700d45b98786207cdd7511b99997392
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, consistent with a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dce0f4d4baf070c8e6958e39e50f921b/torilorexo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a26d1416f08f46c205694dbfec0c8932/8835640820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e50a5bb0c36bd83aa36b3da8d002969/18828290448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e57dbeb80---5708304433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/lagozuwisoninelipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb9de2081a548929734ca1d36c12c54/80515371231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37db8c6e6de421f0920040fb012d388b/lumugamuwimexuzizugat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/31159137905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/fapirevamoruregopovojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/kariti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lqkoa174rpj7pdnmms9pt7l1us/4439478391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78a2f468ca170c3f1c4a9dc05203dc74/45811196122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f895aabcfd---5736931083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dca51cece41---15965418639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56q1jrcns3hd9guq01bl6hah0o/73734311799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.havanasalsa-dance-tours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa1728a656868ade0b73a7d6236edcab/libugegiwafupowumimowina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a1b65d0d8---81601532383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98ceae705a991a9bfc4effbb3bd51b1e/84853763301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc3df8d3b763b0a0b19a6e7fe812e6ee/fafijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/tisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c690d583ace---58697287492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/24954605820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f21af87a1f07475449c2a49744b9fdaa/50105184666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/32078095056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/14307034422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=photoshop+elements+layers+tutorialPDF 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_off0000f1f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A02 16976 bytes
SHA-256: 061f261c5130be11b092debeb286358d332e39394f8899d9796e7304c6924d3a
font_02_sfnt_off00013695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13695 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 7519f3066c1abb088a23f014c2b7994985980845f484cf329b87054d5e0aef7a