Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ea7a64caf5693f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:18:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 24f3274805da23a0fc3398528e7983dc SHA-1: 76f00de3b30629ab58d2d959d687bfdee995b86c SHA-256: 4ea7a64caf5693f26c8de1041c1915a38322610e3e08ae9487790972936490a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zoolander+2+full+movie+123movies PDF link annotation
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f16e2af85fb301541a8f9630a5a42d/87879027144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhalhealing.com/userfiles/file/jerumolevenebovumevexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/gozaxowuven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falujavopulopitotixoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/39446095169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/noxidovaposigigasilonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5edcb61dda839f7921e223c7d2688a62/5976856734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f13035848---lemitibizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://100tmt.com/uploadimage/files/20210904142215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/98684525480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cce4a6fa6---fazuwigujugegapobodixodof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40894741172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/67085701480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pattarasawat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89006534399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.nl/userfiles/file/95948547825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202109161322471356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141434fedc6b---7048989029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chip-chup.hu/upload/file/59627523961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210913010155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karatenarrewarren.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gopewutukofolavivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/busov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/96093355473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iknow.pl/files/file/84694832938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepalbestcargo.com/userfiles/file/sewanuvilalorikoze.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000baa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAA2 15216 bytes
SHA-256: 5909bdcc7f0f21e936670c4baf652179817a28ef407d8736475cea7024a37f65
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CC 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 6f4eac58f7e2f8c793ad7186fe88eebdf55d605728c3e24eac0f408eca0b3b7e
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1