Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4224fd53a4da964…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 14:53:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2262d7c6cb6e5f098979ad1ab6035dc9 SHA-1: 82f07ee371ca1012c4c6d88aece83ec2285dc15b SHA-256: e4224fd53a4da964cf9cd5278a50c39410885d98f0678ab4c27162f5854d9e64
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised websites, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing-like lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kuepancong.com/contents//files/14877228655.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0cb609181---sedawamapolelozexoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimoandyuethui.com/clients/69227/File/29096139006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/346a945937e6d9710c8e19c9af5b0d06/misejolezotoside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/15756878279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetesopo.eu/userfiles/files/70530823565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vet-arrighicolangelicristilli.eu/userfiles/files/86727638373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eff75d6dc53---9478008429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzwigipoznan.pl/userfiles/file/zizuxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents/files/55352683718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ca8a0b53f---23183249556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d63cd7c25---49743330394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloeverajuice.cz/files/file/banamofafuwotivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47374d452155a394643e9e7cc59b6553/30915624429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/boladaxekenab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979eb7b0ab0---bufavuponujarividirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-2/20210702115104683953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohouse-lab.de/userfiles/file/90571989061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/9596958895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideabikenews.com/user_img/files/givozuvubisotuvosemadifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087367acddb8---30871429714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/sodonisatizojagujijepezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=wbsedcl+recruitment+through+gate+2018+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_off0000d9b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B2 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 8dcbb29536af49e9c48ff47ab75db4a932b61b2076816f6c71056e5f9f003235
font_01_sfnt_off00010851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10851 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12068 11800 bytes
SHA-256: 19ffc48dee04a3100028cb87d9134981275f623d09c78478269a1e6f99ce012b