Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4617e37576c25dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-06-20 14:56:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 68c411d7ac5619052800cecac7b06f91 SHA-1: 986838d157a916660e07fb3dfde0a250e95c9ea8 SHA-256: e4617e37576c25dda53e23c7f2f42f4f7571733489873a026dcbab8ecce1e653
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'free fire game', suggesting a lure to attract users interested in gaming. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://actor-conseil.com/files/file/lizubitokulufiwenilob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb9283a60d---76034058201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084651fa24f3---93300715720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608562e1a1eee---ditunipirumoresubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56a5e32aac---goxugowapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077aae7654da---lafobuwewinesogupezotojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c538269b0f5118db779a279614b127e3/76249924566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a8a166287e522abdbb0d536d352696b/42785097447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/xuxesewaxafifamarugek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dfcb8aa79e---49846517705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb3faabf6---sunokakomulewadovavanivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/rabajanonalesuxuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rflti27jejj9apbq5gvju8t263/jixozuberifegugozotuwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/89459340803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdao9v432scc2ieckicrkt36nf/20844084131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/segapixibafejivedapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/misekopalapod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensionshoppe.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nupewunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08ab0df522---dubaxukonola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mod+of+free+fire+gamePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C0 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 786060175598f53225834be7fa291d3f6e2597e7264ccc0d5bc71e0f5d926cb7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8D0 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 7382cf8f0b0c0087f7b36686aedc8bdb3ab119ca7859a8a7ca5fed2aed41dc97