Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4777a51a521e4ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:22:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d0ab208d4f61bd1970c3029d81f5ebd9 SHA-1: 31ade570918c0e77bd7296905102c0629be0913e SHA-256: e4777a51a521e4eedfa27cce8b49678bdc9ffe1a07e670b530e56ec3953c0e67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/rufewo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rotarybrescello.it/userfiles/files/xuxarimafigepexidapesopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinastom.ru/userfiles/file/wovivelapovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff16b5aa08---66403917476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldartline.ua/userfiles/file/niritivesovuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315a967fca8---30971848514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profitoolinfo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zepivugirinegalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivijuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1d9269493---81493584181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgsconsulta.com.br/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/16091753040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acelybio.com/upload/files/22581895105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e50e8fb9e---wuxexogojenuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/86312623621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a2d976fb2b---fokeposarokoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/21059691606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143c5ffde34f---varorag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidozuxabubivuxupotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-ostrov.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sotofarisinoxaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chatham-ebenezer.ckdomain.com/uploads/userfiles/files/tiparewidonunotinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5ky13lu3-1251.com/contents/files/7696620504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hd+fish+live+wallpaperPDF 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_off0000d598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD598 10416 bytes
SHA-256: e9af67ef676d626f0f7ca44f24139802e0b8afb6fa391f29fba7f1fa19861ca9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED45 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 3ad16eddd0416f8ed5396a4319989dd25c4cede357be83383e4dca8cc1063bcd
font_02_sfnt_off00011a6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1