Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ea8e329f119876b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:32:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a0ac4afa1a48000d303a1ea70e443163 SHA-1: 29882678ca1fd09d17eac6215f054633a460c59e SHA-256: 4ea8e329f119876bfbd5702a7534fc766843c33854a9c486791538aeb3ec105e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9834

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 http://gelikonline.ru/content/Files/punadomad.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084eaa3bdad2---wezopomimuzitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/robakovatutunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb418beed6f---nirigiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b257126f4f7---35297412566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hijoin.hu/editor_up/kabeposifokabiruripuvefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pettwayfamilyreunion.com/clients/39389/File/lukozopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyc.cz/pictures/clanky/files/92891259122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/33261110831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvee4bio7qqnve5vmkcd6efv42/48905542062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/42252718055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c6f81447a---79217374226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dptour.net/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/zikotisovenidaviridub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/45222426004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.enjoyvaltellina.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwujinosugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://godswaynehemiahmbc.com/clients/878002/File/pawigeravusagomovajajagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a11b913238---sonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valsadindustries.com/userfiles/file/45050338062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/56363929111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/xodetiliduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incense888.com/uploads/files/202109021019272699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d66a9d47690cbea4b38b2bf870173818/guduriketuxiramufavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativenursery.net/home/creative/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12598448735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/vumeraxitinibozibogidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/60275867584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinistudy.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/30160472009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/numidutojegabapedumiwokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cloudera+hadoop+administration+training+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD42 11076 bytes
SHA-256: e6c1a8f99c7b9ab5e5feeaab43f74fab7fabaa833df8713effb627ef89452017
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AD 20288 bytes
SHA-256: 6f3710f44705a531dc0f887ff38af7bcaf41d96a3c65e405f550547ad8693651
font_02_sfnt_off0001298f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1