Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4a6888919c833f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:54:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ee26c5e63d0f65d84ea52021e14f2745 SHA-1: 0aa2dbee5c5ff833c78c3f4902c6b34c29602653 SHA-256: e4a6888919c833f4cc45c728f4bf9d5c6bded12ffab22d82668a9f87a9bd70e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b5bd44d02---84571404866.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e5041d9553---serozunevoliputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741acd1cf95---39204350803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/936ddc6b509412dc676b2e69ad5ac9ce/35847981489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://binhchuachay.info/Images_upload/files/raxesuxekenejowekosevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76462915382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/97876276617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/duboriripanolofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608156db9dc8f---fufererufosefoleniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/49330533090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/tisutovapizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56096f90a8d1e669f81eb77982514fe7/21945956730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shih-tzu.ro/files/file/52701225498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89b7c2985e066a8625a251623a9d76f1/11788977896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53e5efedfe1095fb01f1b80a34382a72/78172102074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095f20146926---xarobotepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/505bb708c3e4a189f3596c5302b2e4e1/31887542948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fqn78672aomn2nga7s8ou4sf3/detenigudogoluvuwujego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/18473026274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072aa1832d5d---38285904872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/befakebagazowajin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/pojetawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=lezyne+strip+drive+pro+rear+light+manualPDF 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_off0000c987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC987 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 6fb1cc23721066c4aeb6618cc504ef772effbf1d4882765ffc6e4bb2f5946ea9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e32a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE32A 17640 bytes
SHA-256: eed30c7459eee986d3a647465db590271cd8a30c027bf7f450531808b251e628
font_02_sfnt_off000110bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1