Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4b21b1a6dcd419c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-30 10:31:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ba7527eced8f181c76c477f646eea7c2 SHA-1: f75c4a1120c35f4c2b07f484b23dbb9c66a9bcc2 SHA-256: e4b21b1a6dcd419ceb84a77c678ef7be55af3a2ccecc835be92571d14d667cad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute phishing content or malware. The presence of external URIs and link farms on compromised CMS uploads strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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://mimpi1pusat.com/contents//files/8573512559.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/15985032450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/xudagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deforma.it/userfiles/files/puxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960f5165326---vujotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s3e3o352fu92phfhoothg96ci5/2649132787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73ab02163b---28511110366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambanhang247.com/upload/files/37960432128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/belof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5f7olflg4ucajg13pq7i54lvt/wunofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skikk.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/lezusubakupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/68487039956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligozovafesubegixumep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/vobibasinilujosixikure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppiesjust4u.com/clients/c/c8/c8a8d0e690f73854b1e7a5fbb9521f82/File/20088338775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minisadik-margaritka.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4515026205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84c50802ddd971b27e8569de1ec71e74/kafogosije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608469e629ea9---faxekozatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b5967a8a3---79193227372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790f916230a---4524892923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083df02df685---sunubofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkety-patemal.sk/files/file/xoworabigamawub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/padamogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/99567400696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/50000917297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/lipewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5190b3fb3feef69b9d2911e31da801c6/taraxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+electrodynamics+4thPDF 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_off0000f2db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF2 10876 bytes
SHA-256: a9f3af78d1d7ef3eec0713e5ffb9feac608ea91db772f283a5afc84f01616fee
font_02_sfnt_off000123f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F6 18820 bytes
SHA-256: cd25eec74c3cbffece8fc8e2a5d805b015fdae6f573c0db4fc1305c5576e3a5d