Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de4784effb6a3745…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.3 KB Created: 2021-08-16 11:19:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 625f18ec8a725011fadd5e4472a85fef SHA-1: cff3d1a1572dd04996a7d824a9ea46f1b7a99cc0 SHA-256: de4784effb6a3745b4dfcf0685d038c53b1b4f77d376e2f9193379ac42856b69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/14272595913.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/36940188893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05520ec7cf35c2e8a2c06e26ff8bd46c/77526101466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080062fd2163---54283294865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/2838278592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607217ebddc37---25556595841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/57325355373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skazka76.ru/pic/userfile/fibububefoxufimozupejejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5irt6sutd999gobn3jp2phlh47/6416862209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/kaginusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///18015419356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7c21c309e0---puvomenunomife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17b679cc104701d1e0a284e07f307c2f/47947309789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/10154707400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/makubafidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk6uva8pc0o4onm6kt9njm8igd/93141442973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b81f8b2b022c1c65d4e92b73021680c/bolavirubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118cda07c139---45014492330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/ninolano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7q9jf2kja9ccnbqe4flii7sf2/27513967247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/13526076187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1627806684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7lo967sm4bi6ot2u0ic9bhfqfg/76222977298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ac-kenigsberg.ru/files/file/mageruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15a61a6f25a72abef596574bb8315e09/99462817120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bf627769d---nikonulogipopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+similar+purpose+of+glycogenolysis+and+gluconeogenesisPDF 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_off00012520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12520 17644 bytes
SHA-256: c91eb2574a5dd0999c14fbd3dc5ff9106e6ee63da5df08558f000b13a468b9db
font_01_sfnt_off000153b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BCE 11272 bytes
SHA-256: d3a3bbf1afabc44a7b226bc1327a6db47a100bca51c32955fbf931c898b91a77