Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eb643ed2ceebd9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-18 15:57:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 361f596543842150b06adb464d38dbe6 SHA-1: 3ede00cb2a243b526d8b94daef9fb9f71563be9b SHA-256: 4eb643ed2ceebd9cdc548bf7f858d459f655936544aef7a7bb2d663fbbbf0779
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute or host malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this, likely directing users to phishing or malware download sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/93951392352.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/23363537762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89787a0067---29458373851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c865f52257---zanevuzigawawulev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa5bb9deqsaioos1sv6v1e8j5g/76406623694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/545222db03336b92f9aca78842265e31/7008351990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210602_54C122EF9255ED91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e2a17fb73---mupanipaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e913bde32---5894271329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/10954899118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changju-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/91077523043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/1154514357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uusk0gq82sit3m1fc614q30kr7/73437059044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/30689100379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6i6jkibdd2ufuob463kotb6mt0/42344239332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/ropolabutatidonixibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9o5l0164krg747g039fqsb1nk6/53494367325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/muguvug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/57446973195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a89e1fc3b---35467033571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhtractor.com/d/files/30200286969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607841d4e5d4a---simejagixuwogorixisuxifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=airplay+iphone+to+macbook+proPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe3fe2f941746ad8eec5f691c488bfc6/46275908536.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_off0000e802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE802 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 0660c3a07cfa6bb93e8140553ae482d05c761e39e91d87fb990644451a017047
font_01_sfnt_off00010076.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10076 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 90da70af2dc9414479f1cf237abd51c3ed6172a481b7357dad4d9eee9ba83717
font_02_sfnt_off00012db0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DB0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1