Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fe4540a65dd2e5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 18:46:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9510cfa2f2f2df96eafd5afa3992b07e SHA-1: de02e54c9f7fa0d4d5c1ce2db9e0812056de3249 SHA-256: 4fe4540a65dd2e5ef4725dabbef9d22c4a02800ebaefc2ccffcc5104b019e465
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest it is used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ms+frizzle+naked PDF link annotation
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/56298932858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f6aaab990---52199588454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/md3asjoobcdc3t10viaqdbdifn/waxomum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/31490862604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/binajexelik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-ark.it/userfiles/files/78883247224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cb4dd5df38dbbeb60c0f439627d1588/85486149179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834025ecb4c---6153205173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607149543ffe9---98102099153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mvr09ctlrv2oqm89ch065lmg3/ludiraretisamurobukaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3qqma44rqh6pssa9mvj6kfu376/dajevexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbd0ed81617---geperubuzapagagefopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/563dc6e5178a6a4f45699d31ea970c4f/letofunufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyuanmei.com/userfiles/file/3060163211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9468a9266---vojubebokewunopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/djv11759ht80lgbdt1iht05ot3/kejulutejuzanega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607679b65777f---1486107860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/68622704086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l9sr4o7au4h0gl1ho72oid5euh/83394055404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/zajerotibupofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c962c8f343---59485148799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9b392182f---4031759661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69fbmispqb6mho3nr1bmoihvf3/82084569174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vce2btp0cfjel0g3h9p22tn92o/zifaxagaguwapebelewezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dc8630b5c0ff0a835c5a6550e3dcf4a/sarajari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/117294d98d10292a03190616959568b2/11025241476.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_off0000d879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD879 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f08b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF08B 16048 bytes
SHA-256: a398698ad715c7d6be698c9d5f30adae19b3ad5809e7eb2de1f6ff660b25b36b
font_02_sfnt_off000119c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C3 10276 bytes
SHA-256: 57c4f7797d6edbedc4c805a3a5bbdd883a10a2818a4153d53a47b77e8fcc8882