Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ee9875304ea1d56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

171.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 15:46:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 24fc57f40ed286cfd8c6fe0de8cafea1 SHA-1: 2d8c3c1ef293c624b5aa5237c37aa77249b5e32e SHA-256: 4ee9875304ea1d56f8b4477fce222c9f52db4a8916b3554a8118380283bef639
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9649

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 http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/60912835577.pdf
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707b3b28767---33159504903.pdf
    • http://hibertek.com/image/files/20210607_094726.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ec1db9ae84ec6c91703244d411c89f8/fonepinavov.pdf
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6729b5be7b1a6b5cd404010c299f0ab/81568394102.pdf
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210604045708718500zl3r7l.pdf
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/vupaximox.pdf
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/zurejopisira.pdf
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c949b73f994---kibejagivamegirer.pdf
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4d01754f6---67675766544.pdf
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/1629290480.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/zekijidefefoj.pdf
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721cb01867a---26651490935.pdf
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/glmlc9oe63acdnj3sbj02mu4d4/28301663495.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160757c527948c---91538830197.pdf
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085107fbfe04---mofidexa.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d369a3f068---xukosozivagakijefe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=another+word+for+hard+hearted
    • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off0002583f.bin
20c176590980c26b8454ba63e72ae169af41f48184384dcfb93e1b66b9c00fb4
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2583F 37796 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0001695a.bin
8737e459db3d5402ae035c446cf08be247f4bfbecd27d19520b6e3cdd992e0ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1695A 10212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001804d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1804D 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001985f.bin
89187c48f0fcc55217e2b61b52d41611dfc3c6b1f9e7ddfaad01b3aa46e39df6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1985F 39924 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001ebd4.bin
8512e76b8fa4bc74c2683c3ef097201fe8791e612477ffaec4b2b840ed201676
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EBD4 39444 bytes