Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ee4085260e4ee61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-08-15 13:50:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 99b4c5885380fe7d531465913818d4f3 SHA-1: 1d3ad91fdcadf2fcddc7fbe391c8960206dc2a9b SHA-256: 4ee4085260e4ee611d56467e86d11f4ed71e331393c74c600070f048207e0bad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The sample functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS platforms, likely for phishing or SEO spam. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/912f61cef93dc383fb3d8fdfcb1c0d92/90553275371.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoaiduc.com/uploads/files/86913331458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6260be6c2a---36349187815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/rutisezipaxegiwiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b00da2f08c0a4a8b57fcb8bb08671839/6101122101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentali.cz/files/files/4456444146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocamakong.net/userfiles/image/file/wezibumemopepivipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalilak1.com/userfiles/file/tirujagisixoduwaduraranas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de0188cbf6---11288588614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/nuxusesagodev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/27280912335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076af4bc8f8f---9653549067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608185c07af0c---42941530408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/612e2b17906c1a9c9b26c655aeb4568f/3118018217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c88a27dcbe---45711948757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/057665851c7baa4966d9a4a594900005/59278300693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/wekozizonabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2603353025f99cf6ebd7cfd6d11618dc/66062602049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovodatar.hu/userfiles/file/35993084157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/66847280265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/13472876156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31719270692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0v43oqoa3jdb457khbhl2utsnk/61763498666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/44200434693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://showdetango.com/bafa/userfiles/file/58871353233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac8168f98d---pexozezuretukibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+good+in+ielts+speaking+testPDF 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_off0000eb98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000103af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103AF 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 654caba3fb338cd45ee81d530f27da89f4fa19c980b92ce90f3beb3c736b6539
font_02_sfnt_off00011bee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BEE 16608 bytes
SHA-256: 17619c961a71a048fc9031a3c770f62d84531ab5e8e1371bda8339afa94fa3dc