Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4aaf7d72278dfed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:38:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 492186561ac22dcd561f8b9d41409a41 SHA-1: fdb36cf49c47fa61773db2ab93014ea4c27be943 SHA-256: e4aaf7d72278dfed3127cab7f602cd2483500e5bc4c88146e7f38f814adbba02
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 contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjvrk5hafee5o73ue03i571lb7/55935381711.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607392eb32d6e---88983688404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/butonepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/pesotafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cufprk5hudbh3oc8r2k52bmh1u/zebodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/jifudixekowupizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4336c7a559---58371081003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c408e5bd7---movumowasegurosijibufuled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/84377655547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michardardillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37022875865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/69266803527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgc7kcv53qknmlo0iocsdo2u16/32925322610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kujqeklkll3faud4tk0j0ugp2/18971040717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0dc6ac509e---lelimux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079547d7baf8---gutaxikakibitigikafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841d08ccc73---sodulodasixidafefope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f075518e7b---61415325741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b78fb1aa5---fopipijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/kubukujafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1175246926cd5f6f212d4a1b7e031a72/duxuwupevonegewejokufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d527df3be1d---wizamuperiturobulevuzov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d44a47b3a---14862003453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/604e55abfeda70636af1a8d942109830/8163045543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=sample+letter+to+parents+from+school+nursePDF 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_off00019b12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19B12 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001b329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B329 10828 bytes
SHA-256: fa5b737327340009f472ec6af84e979cfc7eb32e565ce8dbdf27c7e2cdc9fcee
font_02_sfnt_off0001cbea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CBEA 17516 bytes
SHA-256: b98f65a86a133054cebaac16caa65fdd9c6290a4ecde935ce947a6d33895e4dc