Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4956390112b43f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:00:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 17f06fc926906a915782f72da262cae1 SHA-1: 20811ae685ecf61f98b0175d219c40a843d568c4 SHA-256: e4956390112b43f11b754bd7524a04c74dd16b7744698240408531011da0fff2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a lure to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609278bc800d0---53145878117.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.varishastalari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e98d801fa8---1799359047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d47508d470d8a3eaef543cea394097d4/48716211620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/6509113856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/087c068713c2fd467e2f3cf859672a4e/90601392456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddu1lr1ina826arrto1k59jdre/89672678393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5afae8f324---7112447444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/paxofuzis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/352ce08fd168ddb48e6d93608fcd7208/73170513935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsbanf91jfpsa4tveets8nsqbs/52933200886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liderpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/40097011039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56b90eb9f2---42116884368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a861d7c7d8---kifanuvilunibagipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097dc38182f6---nugikurexaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bksdqubqsg6g8n29cvp1183to7/97224133311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64d1c502a4---73570320480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/undvvns1f7gfrgv6cca8iu7nlq/72423588157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reparation-mobile.net/userfiles/file/dulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2035f307253a60e315baa4d6011cf7f2/17634846853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac41147f2d87ced9ebdc8d40c10977bf/zidibofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/xufovadomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074149ed35da---31921462469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eerbuhkhgsltlgi19h8cv38nkf/53488625351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/xegevevugupozubipikotoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=state+the+law+of+independent+assortmentPDF 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_off00011bca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BCA 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa9a178898469d284cc68d152f57328c1e294a61bab2ae45294ac7df6ba9fbf
font_01_sfnt_off000134e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E6 16460 bytes
SHA-256: a676a8a74e2c0fb6543468fd552fbadf60fba604f4a57bcc1342dd56403bf395
font_02_sfnt_off00015fa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1