Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4e22ac52de7c5bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-06-22 20:27:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d6638c20fc593afe186a27191ec3428a SHA-1: 00b6b215fd6b08876960bcc15c0d12050db2319f SHA-256: a4e22ac52de7c5bcb1053ac06f5079b28759dba98899e632af25487252465239
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or facilitate phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and compromised hosting indicates a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08f53c51ce---bexetas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/jutadijepujeluzofoveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f4a800552---kigiloxevasaxofusupuwemug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a01f18c3da0---solawezusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weingut-suppan.at/files/19590648354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/dowewigibiporekusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/218518743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c284fc5234---mexiwegoxato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc13d1aaa0---runapitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097d614a062c---todagajiminevazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c23b445dd---xizinidixaribolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5863ab91582115237bbb1837c3d68b52/37086336318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/827ab2434577e3537c173bb9ac8c2deb/babogovaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecompletecontact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabivorovufegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ujgpa3c27p9d1tqqbekf3ujijl/wefunidadikenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=sailing+101+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000103bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103BF 4712 bytes
SHA-256: 68154b5b2e8b5df6b475a5b4f3faa01abf7345383b8dd436575e438e954e19dc
font_01_sfnt_off000113be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113BE 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 81df00fc66027c0a5abb13136e45c7a0199a5ba13792a5b82fc1c3e8a94b86c8
font_02_sfnt_off0001382a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1382A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230