Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ee076259f24a6ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:35:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4bc08639d39da8728dbcb990cf151bc2 SHA-1: a5457259566bdc87c9a6a0895e758fbef05fd5fb SHA-256: 4ee076259f24a6ef2dc3c29e63e8fa52aa0ce960365171fa753514f049f6c312
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bad+woman+in+spanish
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d36838776a---38521132322.pdf
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/zixabanobi.pdf
    • https://altbuket.ru/files/pukoj.pdf
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdc0120077---vibudaw.pdf
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/saruverenisetog.pdf
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021052608495312.pdf
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/jovofuwidudej.pdf
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc9de2c742---79120753427.pdf
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/51395800356.pdf
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/4099579164.pdf
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/70190332584.pdf
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/70274831973.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/235b12d6d4c2a1a4376024fc215f7252/94218750460.pdf
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/11903967203.pdf
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b6b6af215---89115126265.pdf
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcd894d09aaba6ad9546829ee7cba863/14130657231.pdf
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/52634698769.pdf
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74161104351.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f92f8ee51b---5820770053.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/906890b858e17b52878f3effc7cb8c2a/44400563122.pdf
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b5545b91c---14207690589.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8f8.bin
23131b999a416e43ca9b5edf3c09dd5f9ef8f664f4535f7194ca83efeec11ae0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8F8 18612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001090e.bin
834edcdf603d16d94721c6132cfb3e7af47fa4e57da0e8238e8c0b940145755d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1090E 10420 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012078.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12078 16792 bytes