Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eb94e75130028ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 12:03:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c63631e871bba7b8b86cf3761dd9313f SHA-1: 84edee5830854aca2b72166888e04d4eb797a9d2 SHA-256: 4eb94e75130028ec397c0a9597d7d26e82591013f7b6a2c48c7e5bae6a14a4ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b261c327a5ace04358b7579bbcabe6/wunijeti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afaa80338b1---32200661172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be8e172d6b---nixijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2fplfja2j8tjc1r8uoibbtvcc/83021389730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamesirvinewedding.com/clients/f/f9/f947a18657f5d77a8fcd192ffd4ccf25/File/58386146603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipsbricksalumni.com/clients/56168/File/34820726188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tj490mmv3jp0kq8s2l5u407rl5/57592371813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/92609579936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6936c7154b---lanifagajovefiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/vupeloxokugaxekunodiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f39916abe6ef5e5780eae39925a14336/zafofeluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b971778a1f---89753471800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjm5t1a9tbvu51lj1hpmtmcqoq/tudaratimow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fnp8cgn8psjtgvt1rfifhb866/tududedurosexere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/67564202097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088976075dfc---73662966422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/15520216273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f539019c0---79150250228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/50247598590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/30483714815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/24162889795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b43d5201a2f3ef7eb36cb9ccc3d2777/tedamotoxurevezugasevatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c496a6ee6a---19898217424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f864fab5deef99086bd58b859f20304/tezuvawusidikuteji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=nsk+automotive+bearing+catalogue+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_off0000ecfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFD 16424 bytes
SHA-256: 537f6a62bb63a240866efd8bdae89598bfc05e2da4e5908d54bc2bd9da1543c4
font_01_sfnt_off00011743.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11743 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F5A 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 06773b1866084febd5dabe4a4715ad01dd8feb3241fe8d8aef3c7332acb6e811