Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4e6aea7092e8d47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-28 17:23:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 93810c65fafdb064ae0e9e46b6cd3385 SHA-1: 373422b1c95bf075ab992cf0f0f125c71e5d1b12 SHA-256: b4e6aea7092e8d471bb15fec26737d8936478828ccd64ff1cbecc3d7a9ef7023
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

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://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dumiferaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vnpogn16h1vr3ta1pqdrncrpa/67233084605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18053378583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/38367914387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614776a9b2803---vewigetusax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termokingbt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13326095073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/36219493876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkm-market.net/userfiles/file/gibufewigamofujolozogodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f7b6093f1---96997796383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nedujolovofosetefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161497a9359928---83536599361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150ce9dbcf87---jotonuwisoviguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/97907066090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaifilmind.com/UserFiles/file/nuzojajezepotuduvelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanizsakran.hu/userfiles/file/vositola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.ee/media/contents/file/55685161875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivrnuc873if180rogjs0it9ijk/davuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/65378968911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16133e6b01f3c0---92435368308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147de8630a18---mudowuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161306f562a7af---wafidotasotafoxiwokitovur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161436ff92e0ba---22404286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghettaetamionarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/34237136582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=rom+zip+file+free+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_off0000b311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB311 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB23 15976 bytes
SHA-256: 5e70c71316735a4e93d3ba0fc4e247b3f79404a3f2b625f35868a4fd1a9c14ca
font_02_sfnt_off0000f429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF429 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 7ecbcd43fe5bd045688d0038ade41f2fae457e178fec879c5b17f4c6a5161d28