Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ead6b848f9e5f4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 05:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 65948a2362b6cb631729912d127c1a20 SHA-1: 91e322499d442ca6aea2be7f84eb612dcfa279ed SHA-256: 4ead6b848f9e5f4e0f986fde0177d51bd7921f62fa452ed47bdbadd9c26d1dc5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links. Several heuristics indicate that these links point to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or exploits vulnerabilities, contributing to the phishing and malware distribution intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e375dd23be5---rovinukepenifilokomofegon.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/26919677269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/41417004796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6245c4005---93364620706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/nomifelukofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2df84d08d7---52567005285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djarkitek.com/temp/vinney/HTML/userfiles/file/zojiwidiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robbinsfamilyhealthcare.com/clients/2/2c/2c787fa606fc56c3a3a24dfc5409695f/File/84761659450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriardue.it/userfiles/files/67558960304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pc15nf7ujebrbtga7ma5v33csn/zonefasezesatezenoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b803ca750bd3e35c33d98776ffaebb9c/masalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c581750a56---17639193269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4mmv2fbfekjbh91g2dg1seb1q/17178555953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13cbbc19ff5a4078c806cabdd00e899c/nuxilaxitefekuxitisesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://die-elke.de/cms/elke_page_files/file/mevugazefibanomasagobozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b7354ce579ab601ebb940ec90e32416/wunutobesuzabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phsdcenter.com/temp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71136348537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2a797a507---xuwojunugamuvukukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/jisazubagaduxujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/23956783334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/8609368887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff4g2bu1hptnq9abefts1vhi4/kelolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/73243469694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa2275d220---51781048969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=instruction+in+educationPDF 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_off0000cffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFFA 10368 bytes
SHA-256: c67fd73c14d66a09e92b202d6f853b377ecd33dc3cff67dd9d22667e9f49402e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e78f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE78F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFA1 17836 bytes
SHA-256: da49c535759a2dcd1f15a47c2bc3fa54828182198af820a500ae67a064d9c0d3