Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de4e5398875aa286…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 14:52:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1cdfab1dde41b8951211d81085b0be59 SHA-1: 248969df834c76d053dd490339c0f95b117ffd2e SHA-256: de4e5398875aa286c9dce985add30e21ae6c0f63bd0430a2526445466bc09dd1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://ubest.ru/images/file/bulabegiletiguluzoviboxeb.pdf
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/21175815370.pdf
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///wipiwomufotezotuguwimab.pdf
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dadaa5875cc71ddda7555fa6db0e9be/85084505469.pdf
    • http://dsacare.com/admin/uploads/file/genuziripokigi.pdf
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1314008743---paloru.pdf
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/73703584361.pdf
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/zugesulewegoribo.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc1f358f4b---topitare.pdf
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f4fbd7863e---dewupupibo.pdf
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607582d243bee---tavutabivafoxabudako.pdf
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69e5e24af73d03a451334c065b00a7fe/46336183821.pdf
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90qbbjm1vctnrj08jo6vhl40c9/jelitivazotapowizike.pdf
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/6552295728.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iq9rs61budqvl7sflghtltf33n/4836266911.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d799fa59949---40012058338.pdf
    • https://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a03bade0492c01856c6f0ea8871936f/66111688164.pdf
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c51e3cd9a7c---setudepurugisotul.pdf
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee3d9b40565---8212914159.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/870d0158ea5946dac2ef455ed1fe0766/82860520145.pdf
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7a83b1131476aba917e7bfd997bb6d8/80984309681.pdf
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8ce494364---zodeg.pdf
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcdoppb8u941qoc3cl3mmtjkp9/75787627560.pdf
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/bukinigolagumilirovasi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=origin+of+the+word+excruciating
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee6c.bin
53c7235ba00b0d367d9071fa0108fdeef07fdf8b1ba781d0e4c45754e489132b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE6C 19844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012178.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12178 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001398f.bin
5729d339d5fc2d9c33bba94bdcfafc9a01383d5aabec210fe1e03c0100edc90c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1398F 10856 bytes