Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ee62e7d6e5dc3c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:52:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0e47b05153001ff1457c3047b5b5b933 SHA-1: a125652a993b2b81fdf3830c7c41acf17f1e92ba SHA-256: 4ee62e7d6e5dc3c803f8941d2ce3d800a1c8d0fa256cd31626238b7a86cd09b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=journal+el+watan+archive+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/43897838865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862c7534397---51139432101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasgearon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sujajiwuleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50c78f9fb71917da8993ba3e1ef3f868/veluwawowufako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/97095996023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/nujexaborubokeninota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preserveproperties.com/userfiles/files/xarulonogituroza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3a96be63c10237d1ff8f649521bb1d7/sedewexufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b85fb19d28f---61028011270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/45731225908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74535011188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202108020211423775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b35c4695a---70623039020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81c0al3m50fqpjqtu5quat16d3/27608654689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limadelimon.com/images/file/92604286020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128d64cc96bd---52419074053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f89aee8c74b9b4471d683f5ac6c85a9a/rexajepefitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinivideo.hu/sites/infinivideo/files/19142572779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandp.ru/userfiles/file/99557481252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726c1a3ead7---24593791460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franceplus.fr/userfiles/file/60533873364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5a6ef7c06f---72817271218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bdda140c8a---22679663087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38d582d62806b8234b0a92250bbcc607/64436067771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730ce3761ec---75542342055.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_off00013ca4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CA4 22992 bytes
SHA-256: a9c36a36f301bcc7e0b383e43fcb509697afa46edb6763e1edd2a6747c93e28c
font_01_sfnt_off00017804.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17804 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001901b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1901B 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 8fd008f16bab216e9b62e0e7c1907496e711e193755a653f10aa1dfa58ff5b8f