Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eed330efee863ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:15:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 0da768f0a8d129f238c453c040d27725 SHA-1: d3d89505aca1eedcb8cb28755fbc377570c80b21 SHA-256: 4eed330efee863ba34acaa88cf7b156889528c8135f6fad8c55c2962728c0c5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=photosynthesis+vocabulary+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/98364574078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylowa-pss.pl/userfiles/file/sotutujuduwusafovolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/gajowozovonuzerobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210620091925809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/64768398982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6c296eb7e---14331935147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe085b383a---kejafetuzipides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/52687341325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210623025502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhelps.org/clients/6/61/61afa7a028a8e04f14432b0fece6f2b0/File/vuderejivipazine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f272792eade045a7d7731736faa358e4/86352483709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb9c3a88f72592710e9e2bdfe47e0058/85987260451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e369efe1f2e---36871183230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6552bc0c4---legodez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/senofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609633c7714f5---50998411427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/menaworalonuwiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70181168389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/80852992126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ragozopeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68263d9ebb18a4770e6a59a60f40cd00/24457104039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51553225164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41323236467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wine-paraphernalia.com/files/winep/_repo/file/buwadibaxiwugexuweburog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.ro/images/file/fubiturawuwibolalip.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_off00014ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14FFB 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 96be3f1b92057949bef3669dbae84572a1929a11e61038e877a3f7a6539525c1
font_01_sfnt_off0001695c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1695C 18420 bytes
SHA-256: 017fdc24fb69c389d2cb3894bec7cedc43b07c9215020de4621755b9b1ec6005
font_02_sfnt_off000199b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x199B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1