Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eaa2b2a2d776058…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.9 KB Created: 2021-08-30 03:24:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6adc76ddb49dd60b14c90193b532a5d0 SHA-1: 76522d62c76ee71835d225f1868f7a55ee0d396e SHA-256: 4eaa2b2a2d7760588ad54caaca34a45cb2962959eac39e8ecfcc839a5ea6a059
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0a817c38e---55008447941.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vigiweb.cl/dinamicos/files/file/8521401786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b965fddf2a---32633770031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boothbayharborshipyard.com/userfiles/file/23152522657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833ca3bbe83---12590671801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a8e35b063---jepulejuteluzogotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralcomservis.ru/crn_fls/crn_files/92635398454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/60809317071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8d2c0105b---1302558337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/pivaroratubutufizipawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://innotek.vn/uploads/news_file/15405744500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikidi.com/UpFiles/WebEditorFiles/file/madelitanarige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/586e6e6ecbf132718cd88ad0f1959793/terinanumap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/21051001582927272006ef2c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/jibusexopudulusupemabare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conroeclassof72.com/clients/d/de/de0acc14889d5d69ce6a2e221f3e79cd/File/21284769509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veterinarycarefoundation.org/userfiles/file/wawerixemuzojoluninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajskiewakacje.pl/userfiles/file/97406789225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d2090ce40b---13506512269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugamabusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdientunhk.com/upload/files/nabilitifefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad4dbdd0d2---gurivon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=bloons+td+1+unblockedPDF 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_off00017784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17784 20312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d6317109e31b0852e63dc4d72e4fed563c8b40e25cad0edd53df3e17ffcdf09
font_01_sfnt_off0001ac4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AC4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001c461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C461 10444 bytes
SHA-256: f3468ed9719620610b5bbff810007c004e267cfc805c2fe3eda63cda7cf92887