Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4b02f0f9017a283…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:05:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dc15297b5d3db3737cede71e6a713d67 SHA-1: 6f77a533136616232a41cc2be679909f3a8953cd SHA-256: e4b02f0f9017a2837bb52a94d2034ccce92453084e81971f20eef483e6975b73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/8203581077.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/3609992893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eeb73a8fe1---28645943114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ec142d728---75188472277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/tuzamomaminofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/91997471756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077673b9b210---bufuzojom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55c46faaa9a92f5be2c6434464469967/kejobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6ang8lbmgab9u5hb82h7cnthg/32926476105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072254bdc0f4---97590711120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1000families.eu/userfiles/file/96992119568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/berezazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/20916879962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752995167e0---41295669747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textstricker.de/benutzerdateien/72710377218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellerbeefamilyreunion.com/clients/874543/File/nutijolupegabavigota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c7d764478---kitezopobevabevume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/zibujig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b04c1202e---sabulerekele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/malukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfo-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/21847755056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/37926931353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=diabetic+foot+care+handout+pdfPDF 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_off0000d322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD322 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB34 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 41dbf55f0a0439bb7a168236ee7a839f1f66eaf9d9b606dcbaf8ecf1c73fd49c
font_02_sfnt_off000119f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F5 10744 bytes
SHA-256: ad3677dfd0f164f53211d2a52c11da2cc76a26406010a5b45466f7e771b5b356

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