Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4a84be132f146cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:01:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a5860dbe31367676a666398f2efa0747 SHA-1: ba1c9d5feadfcb724734c290eb818c7a43d2ab9c SHA-256: e4a84be132f146cddf47f032324b2cfadd7e4bc4395bf1cd632cde274b9d47a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it is used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a high number of links indicates a coordinated effort to obscure the final destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f4e5d14f62595fe5a159581a40b3300/novikukeson.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/11117912119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goturaniruju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021082001191873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b372fc2665a---vosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9063b3e4c---71252175362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adilaltinsoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b9b047cd9---tatiwaxiribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/bubisiminubukufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1693e6f0a6ac5522d2485dc773fd77b/11695309653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/vabemiwesira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/pivejasebofizaraposulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocincorporated.com/domain.com/images/dynamic_pages/file/54347982096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidadogirefufurelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoop.legreniervert.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dijubolutazegupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1f3e92cb0---9851597599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908f127d630---23738930225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/145d2c9a0612bd7288c7e2548fc9515c/geluwiwalomezilewuwele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/zetudikagovidaxugiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d506aa6da47e32bfde712ddf9c64288d/sivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d486995703---51013021325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/numututiletawugitexozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a63e6002d---raxuzenilokeren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdqdk34tq3jfldrg2n76m4djk9/juzosamufasarixepogaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e089020001052f39e97f1f23d81ff041/5107091112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///76528598133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=insert+pdf+in+word+document+as+imagePDF 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_off0000e3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A7 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 89849f1826e008f6b712f7df17bab438f96775991d35cb4e12ee7b8fca61383d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011554.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11554 17472 bytes
SHA-256: 2883b4080bf48e5a3b3f64afd2cf70bbba493204d8dd41917ef25a207e5aacab