Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ee3c91704cfb0c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

154.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:11:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8f9164061d53de76f098ab7e7594cfc2 SHA-1: c522a7f3c6e846a7b026c8e51f562a2a3d4077bd SHA-256: 4ee3c91704cfb0c90c2a9d92291e2fe6de339dbdedc0b6b57878fcc0ccb8de3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to a link farm strategy, with many links hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sabertooth+x58+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://greenline.bg/userfiles/file/wikuwunodulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c00efd6b7cf---26014043454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/8950897102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/lelupudidatiwope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingfamilies.org/clients/8/8a/8af36a28baf44bfc7b8a7004fb4eaede/File/37012462465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6t9fa9362g2cut8cqoas6s4565/30022201151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americanewbie.com/userfiles/file/76271944823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609345d036464---76279038257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077eb5223dff---18732225555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///19318390789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/bapolimazunasebuvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehbo-oostkapelle.nl/userfiles/file/xuvesuxurepubadotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40446871654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutherford58.com/clients/5/5b/5b2824e44de76337c32dfcbc3ee6dba3/File/87370910972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa1975d4fbf9252678190b3822a0d703/linama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099aca4c0720---gegiwejemogovapota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///malifinuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/risinunubilatekoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1cb502fe4---79798983276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bed59b7da8f---33350015382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6u9mfhbm7n8lk99s41lgfj420/kevazezebevavogomozabumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/zifiwebuduninukofusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c669d43e4fd---ketasenapixosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4f5e5be23---beguvux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b490ee96a3e---17997964418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiachristian.org/uploads/files/55939396145.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_off0001ef8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EF8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000207a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x207A2 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 0b2e126b690bd7f8afff34e4e15ee788ea47265dd54558e556c59fd5853211a1
font_02_sfnt_off000220a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x220A9 22600 bytes
SHA-256: a31b1537ce1d3c4ac9ab4ca7dc917b0f55711362e40071599b36b09ca67ff750

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