Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4ae6e9648270bdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:22:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f5e44157d96d59dfd1ab7a1224f5f9be SHA-1: 8edb5b754b5894863b4b13a20c49f35885e50ab3 SHA-256: d4ae6e9648270bdc7edeb7e5298dacd84f9d766d8517f40d6bfc0ff4d1f35001
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially untrusted hosting. These links likely serve to distribute further malicious content or lead users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0751cce7f1---kuvusifatise.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/desiguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/vedaxuxedaxedomoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3e9e828f8---dovupajobazimamoxofunadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhstroi.by/uploads/files/46852555356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/34763664909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08b89e0841c75d1889ad4ca01cbca1fd/jutirulisexakil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a12920cc6f33b900267ee9ef131c3e4e/93307092804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c037d70629---wijenimukulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c152554509875937a36c7a615133640/32294916465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0506b07d97---xuligolowamojatipubabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hissekurban.com/resimler/files/vozodumozapopoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ichapps.peaceofworld.com/ichapps/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/xesudilidejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/xizowidalepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76cf6e28c7---fotanewepuluvukizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/19306965185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89jhk1p6ujjfsqc80pt057eng6/46997631349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97240973876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weyergans-hcc.lv/userfiles/file/14393827196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/16140753498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/numutajikegapunavamuped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/iwagiwotomalik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salondebellezaanamariaromero.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/80849696405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee6d12bd17---96183680710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fv1glc21coltgm8da7lbil844/37450598017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celcg.pl/uploaded/file/21342139978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=factores+de+virulencia+bacteriana+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://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_off0000c286.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC286 16692 bytes
SHA-256: d831996acff8cccbd84ceae278f717ec61ad6090e784820feb39fc7994b280da
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC7D 10896 bytes
SHA-256: bcbdddd2e42a01df704cae63a8d563d0455540664ae69dd663d03bc43df2a798
font_02_sfnt_off0001059c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1