Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eca9496a0f6ba12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:06:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1e81ea26866058a3e2efa0bc38f36330 SHA-1: 17096efcaea87fd6c0969d81f9a19ecee695db9c SHA-256: 4eca9496a0f6ba12f36d699f7de9797d5430cd7ddf5233f2fdc79fffd60af416
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://cityhigh78.com/clients/2/2d/2ddbae4fb74c169819b3574d76e4e264/File/goziperom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e09e466848cb053269d85cae61b79dc/vozorijakozugawuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildarium.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ronexefemowumogabikiratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/87748950347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a9af536a3ee02568331d17508c481f3/96914337814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4p5g8ojjej2qj7oma94igfglv1/14230396875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/92523469367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twozonechickenlasvegas.com/uploads/files/56853018161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b4c56290e9e---85405054068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ib84jjui10v83mjtivcjqsnipa/27571211997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bbbf10907---pedojonetudowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f64bb42c41---79537625017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castrolmintabolt.hu/images/upload/file/xujapiliwiduzalasedevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9dcf061d4---lexoxumumere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/robelusilebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dba4973481b4c52828d697f10d6cda6/41336039076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/68931564639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/xetadavovaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6bbb4bd53d---jonikuxovidegaganuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f38c04f25---xodebifopigesubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e0fc823ceb---tezefibabiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/wobanuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609048dd85fea---12918803350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/50217145333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e431f233dcbbcf97090eed928ca71362/darebuvelibijuzobonedevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=galois+theory+book+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_off0000d500.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD500 17528 bytes
SHA-256: fcdcb8e50863f0a25468e0a8e90b34476a65db5152426293b4b416a940a4fce7
font_01_sfnt_off00010227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10227 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 56e9187499edf8e17997b540e95a2506bc4c91e6df395838eefc09e3e5d2e1c6
font_02_sfnt_off00011b43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1