Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4eea5529eccd3c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-08-22 04:45:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 44606e1cbd50f6e3ac9e64f969203b24 SHA-1: 47de393757e5c0d0bbc939995f1db43b2c298c9a SHA-256: b4eea5529eccd3c22470121bced4043f8430c04226c0051da2daef34c8bf7659
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or appear to be disposable. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data, but the heuristic firings clearly point to a malicious link farm 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 http://conhantaoankhanh.com/webroot/img/files/kuxuzuxotobuwajuwarerovoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4a0d8620c---98371493636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugusejajazatojexevovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98i7ihfkjudhabphqdo54sobo6/81652004537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/kawijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad968942618f60364780b617a3dc2c43/49301093452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/35833200523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e47f3d8c6acd2ef110cc65992127c034/90722400168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/75347716305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2819546ba---vegilonetesiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ef05d3lr0a1qtrttiido06tpr/50115161125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laps.pl/userfiles/file/90235781846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7tluggu8g4ivsfktsqcfku6pq/xifepigasime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f11ffba45c---72959758201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppkh.net/userfiles/file/98445175377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210531042557146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettorebelfioreliutaio.it/userfiles/files/73368349974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdce29c4ad---99031153008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapcdn.space/web/img/podborky/files/revusotunadubofadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104a297909af---fawolizezegisuvibafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmakler.org/userfiles/file/6636327139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjpexport.com/files/tatebapomumedeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87702177199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/panakodasepamegifalivafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+odyssey+book+1-12+quizletPDF 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_off0000e209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE209 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 7c3d44960506ac96a5c9b868eacdd3f80f1c17151a1fbe75297ae68d8793345a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB0A 16592 bytes
SHA-256: 92476251f78df564de7751e805b1bdb6cd1d0f9ef1e017dacfeda552cc545e73
font_02_sfnt_off00012597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12597 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1