Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f5e3a892b8e64ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 00:42:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 504bed8cbda38f374ea575d0a4d5ad66 SHA-1: 123c35285dc64c0bf21855ad63530e2a71c2e543 SHA-256: 4f5e3a892b8e64ee9d2692b90201dabdad402875d9187846755c78766508d8dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jupiter+and+rahu+in+11th+house PDF link annotation
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d429de0ea1---31319202815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9888c4d2cfa2d4bb14ea707af095b3e5/2721956176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mds-horizons.com/upload/files/15318044861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/mejujegikibopodezinep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83kead2lhrd2beiujrvtpac4ki/97023021938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catgarner.com/clients/873270/File/96934533061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///nepemibebenozuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/239247d0fc9e6b2d6985c8bb29f39797/89002649919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db9a904605---18251598318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44e94d9ab47b2308f4cae9ddfc6edc0b/71439586286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a833e5374---bajumuvimijejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fexibubajafepasanef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismoilnoceto.com/userfiles/files/sokemefadosugutamuxevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukhatirhomes.com/userfiles/file/sagibowojosanaxanosadiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4e3d861584cf6eb9a6cc3dcbf3b4d6a/batiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a837c4b5f6f---54331497308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1khsj739urklilfg5eg7ap6cf5/97530623143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsxr.hu/userfiles/file/muxizegiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c70e8eff3---39779880535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee4eb4c7da---35730033360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/jiwuvukagunoxojopav.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_off0000e38e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE38E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fba5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA5 10588 bytes
SHA-256: d3ba4251d1c775961ff1fe64d00be3da2d0a8fde0f39830fe8879b34912239b9
font_02_sfnt_off000113cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113CC 16764 bytes
SHA-256: 8c7acd2f3963911f5dc4394ddbe80cb8fc20e8db113e428b7f330e89d9ee139a