Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ea5e95cd4fc2e93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:04:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b38769cfa27d8ee1192f657ad9c92e70 SHA-1: 2d24494862ad044a479a38b3a88446adb1d7bcb6 SHA-256: 4ea5e95cd4fc2e93b27dc3b03c64bbc058b7fe414298c8c63bd99cfc4b1022c6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The embedded JavaScript and the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting suggest an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or redirect users to malicious sites. The document's structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109031215027514.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://belitour.ir/basefile/belitourir/files/japujazonebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jisuxelofito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614093126560d---kuxexutibaxudubogogazizos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/kipokozipiwukagodoguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/duruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonekarusa.com/contents/files/4740444143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinching.com/uploadpic/files/202109101204097707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614df3c057e58---13258825683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.com/userfiles/file/34997220439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanchang.chinatupai.com/web/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxoxupene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstairan.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/18019404444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbeaindia.com/userfiles/file/xopelusagonesekawus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f4f0df2f89---moravami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f545643b60---97490687238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/705182579a3088a1515178bafd6bd274/sowesilisatovuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.lv/images/hand_uploaded/files/jenimafexalovujorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=job+acceptance+letter+examplePDF 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_off0000a87c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA87C 10508 bytes
SHA-256: efed5f7ceef26cfc01b3f3c6d30ce9ebcdad250eb96f010ae02e8c370a939645
font_01_sfnt_off0000c03c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC03C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000d84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD84E 15232 bytes
SHA-256: 3ea1f2dc68a42de75e244ca8f5c82a0a1fcb3fe54e080283da971cf51144abf8