Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4a474780597244e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 10:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1f5bd5b66a04419deca4fe55f2248abd SHA-1: ecc38e93a98d850a7c7cb67b944ff99f3e5158d7 SHA-256: e4a474780597244e8316ee98b00ab49d193dff373b22917de3dcbf7895c0a9f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicate a pattern of hosting numerous links on disposable or compromised domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+densshield+in+a+shower
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3hhtu70gtfv8mvqa3fcs678v01/69708904078.pdf
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874iuohts0b3dqf53i2kire3qd/60175346428.pdf
    • http://sumterhigh89.com/clients/863574/File/tinukeni.pdf
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/tugomon.pdf
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/68976385700.pdf
    • http://thecoferfamily.com/clients/7/78/7892d776c92a08c80f86ebc6236678d2/File/lemegomitesujo.pdf
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08c8a7a94c---66550358265.pdf
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/623fb4ec694cc48d3153ad4791601a76/3487067075.pdf
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb5e04e2c0---5421286108.pdf
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d1965de41---firogagowazofaw.pdf
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/zibogizaponapubileja.pdf
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f0cb53e53---94804728379.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/8233851109.pdf
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607665a6c82f3---86702383825.pdf
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc843790ce---jinamawiti.pdf
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/95958191675.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aadfe61073a---81603918120.pdf
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/rofofitexiv.pdf
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rtljq1dkkbmsi4svn5nm8aiq66/23475915278.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b6200d6db---rimezasanozagibulufagino.pdf
    • http://meskerjager.nl/media/files/75633590609.pdf
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba5259b728---xelovijanukubevakoko.pdf
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/395a2f57664aee2cd312c9efc8ed0a84/dejebixuxi.pdf
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aba5902ba88dea68e7e4f07fd2b380e/dabasux.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000baf0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAF0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d302.bin
209fad53211f5f67f7435e6208f4fdf9180d50f0e8cdb9a89308ed994fed993f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD302 15420 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa95.bin
8f505ac118eeac8282d86a5a3a54d643459ed9637ff84bb48477b03d96637eb0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA95 10420 bytes