Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ee3a07f7f5c60c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:54:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 747f8971ed48415a6998ba2f790f0bfc SHA-1: 9c3f4dd0d5ba19eac71a82d119e278721e91c13d SHA-256: 4ee3a07f7f5c60c2287610c0f64fc6803f7615d8c21ee16546b03ef3a705640d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of an advance-fee scam lure. It contains numerous links to external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or scamming attempt, likely involving redirection to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=photoshop+cs6+94fbr
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140cabbc2715---67036422407.pdf
    • http://ppogrimall.com/upload/editor_image/file/2205730547.pdf
    • http://ufcnagykanizsa.hu/userfiles/file/81235563244.pdf
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-9///2021941822133551.pdf
    • http://clinton.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/vanexefojufemirejuru.pdf
    • http://ipsaix.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fifonasesumusafumifopituf.pdf
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f0f246eac---fatapibijegilerut.pdf
    • http://webinaris.training/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/46767592642.pdf
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site/site/data/files/meruwafij.pdf
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b496ffbfbdf566bb0d26ce667c209e5a/jukuvajuko.pdf
    • http://soeurs-scjboran.fr/soeurs/upload/files/bitepomedawigefupalinokux.pdf
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/tixovegepif.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/34441850465.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c43bca34a4---lokezevuvoruka.pdf
    • http://studiosantomauro.it/userfiles/files/41925768892.pdf
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/40616683430.pdf
    • http://sooam.com/files/fckeditor/file/154309980561394bb44c6a7.pdf
    • http://www.cemeba.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/jaguvutaveselelo.pdf
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/75490381727.pdf
    • https://fengshan-zhennangong.org/upload/ckfinder/files/sosowigodatade.pdf
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53286778430.pdf
    • http://tehla.eu/userfiles/file/dulewobawalibanogotovixil.pdf
    • https://dadrarad.ro/userfiles/file/20742333821.pdf
    • http://szyoujin.com/UploadFile/file/20210909010445673.pdf
    • http://physocare.com/Images_upload/files/57940642664.pdf
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7119b08a5a6840f28cdf263116c6f3d/fokevujemunotolenejowi.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_off00011335.bin
59770199eb7c5af2243fc115cf3899383c310584fc73d7ca23753205655b4e57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11335 18464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001438e.bin
3a32bb5418cdb67684f74759e37e4cafb75d35fc2af59da9782680c871f3705b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1438E 10596 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00015bac.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BAC 16792 bytes