Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eef7f009ada2e90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:05:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fbe9bdcd17e3ce037067c0141afac242 SHA-1: 86ff3186cce41313e17b14799ac0a725c0b4aaef SHA-256: 4eef7f009ada2e9008b181055688ad520651b636f3c2d6bc12685f9c5b3bd750
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm structure indicates a likely intent to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf2018968e5dd11601821a3e5ed1e0a4/79537581840.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/17797262353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupamavoboxepotiwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/58753375083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/17645930139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a0rgndq4mush56ngpj1f3bcb2/37561252091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafasakibet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///kiwedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a318acccfc2a1f4af3e2d152547f0ce1/bidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahtiyardishekimi.com/fckfiles/file/maxozebowidowodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/dopitiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsanaq.com/upload/file/210722225832275877ujyzm5777m6g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/12175336825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trufeel.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/uploadfile/files/pilafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/rebekolaxidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luxifilabegopolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o0ialavp8bfgrife2oecrtb558/gipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/54520425110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duxutexijuzotasenoborixib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at-studio.tw/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210811_222328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/363d5c8108aabb0bd3310d8903187833/simirekipuvuserejera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908de789f02---986918669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=epf+form+10d+filled+copy+in+pdfPDF 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_off000131cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000149df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149DF 17932 bytes
SHA-256: 878e378637880e7e34f12ead93c70d04ffb645019d07249b11763aaad508ba54
font_02_sfnt_off000177f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x177F4 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 6a47a109015b8b070fb5f884c22e4f9f41c7ecc2874856006e93da3d3244979b