Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eef85acbe42b247…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:04:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 92ed1654e9187f047a3849d8af628be0 SHA-1: fb5890da658e0ba118ce19359769a5b178ec7f32 SHA-256: 4eef85acbe42b247a6422d42154b8ab680f8907b7dc4a03396b2021dfaefe3aa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The presence of embedded JavaScript and a high number of external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, strongly indicates a malicious intent. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support this, pointing towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://sumtinathholidays.com/admin/uploadfiles/file/15258116297.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24227e3b2a---47728172409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d806d0d058494decfdaf0d99019fcf8c/38727194256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/xazimajosoziseruxafixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfe5404f56---34323455586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandrosso.com/js/upload/files/22694635573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610abfff357a2---kuneguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d3d65c6dc4---9783674485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b92a647d501b4e4a8f35e40cde5202ee/22174302437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/vidukewumure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092237c43451---52211405134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/96230503031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/56258111064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hm6c1n56qcvcht93fbp3d48vs/mametezapijodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/788885a6a547336ee4315fc16b51e4d7/26804927238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fcksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32548281478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a153095fe99---59540061542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c13d9511b5---86922880577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/porivazesalovadosodafegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fjft0u2cato4r90bq56loe69m5/retakewakizit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhfmjournal.com/data/22/2/55/64/2544879/user/2788947/htdocs/userfiles/file/tudefotelafezuperisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=atlas+of+nerve+conduction+studies+and+electromyography+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000da45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA45 18584 bytes
SHA-256: 4a51fecccebedc0737691b800b4b7d27301943e572e3e913830b1cdbef7a7eb2
font_01_sfnt_off00010adb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F2 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 55543d5a7f938609ce90eca271762801af91535d1a971f9667d304ea217f21e3