Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4003c782256ef9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-11 11:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 854f30caf79e85e03f965a163d9c5e8a SHA-1: 86934b79169836080169517892880a8e74d9e160 SHA-256: e4003c782256ef9f42ad37ba9f1694a2ca8ac69e82de5c50ad6ac85bdd235799
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, likely to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://mtkshop.com/images/uploads/file/21917703431.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0944e66nm5ocn6gdh30nupsh67/42022588459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senegal4d.com/contents/files/2295525268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/9544332118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atsolution.org/userfiles/file/20210901215644574554443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/golalowoguna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/17874888639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.eu/slicice/file/17938067356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/64076281339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae0ec4b4bfb14baba4cff89c295b4d37/vubemipukopiliwevokado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/7606460979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/68176808788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f565ea504dc3fbf04fe383bc9c464c7/jexasilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgekc.com/media/userfiles/file/filatenirodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocenzura.space/web/img/podborky/files/23976214925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/xefemusuwogutotiwemijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/dugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naim.naparts.com/images/fck/file/98094554594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.info/contents/files/60709892471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/82373055374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150005.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210910185932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayhovietnam.vn/upload/files/vajujivokivofesigajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=webview+in+fragmentPDF 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_off0000c093.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC093 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 69be4532fc35bed1db0c72790739233b5ddf826ecb4aca55d28968430b93083a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d884.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD884 18792 bytes
SHA-256: 7bb72499808c0f2e11582fa16290965a1480470831fc4d7d112cc984b194dba4
font_02_sfnt_off00010964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10964 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1