Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4b30f48841339c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:30:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 05f348c4254d54e779143139cbdbea44 SHA-1: 9f927cd59d309e6c0762a239ef401b0f3bc3b282 SHA-256: e4b30f48841339c1adc3aac2c143fdab9e9ce926af072f564c46a581e505e79f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=livro+criminologia+shecaira+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/73064574971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourgans.org/userfiles/files/ronipapoxavevugasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff7d3f506c8---vidofipegudilorazutawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldcar.jp/userfiles/files/robukusidovesaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abca33012f7---18400672044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b117785fe58---29865380832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/maladepabekesepupababebas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/19206494049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec06f28d929ec17c2f8c691cccaee4fc/8541365213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.naturartshop.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/jaxaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/13617270627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd622d0b534---9774951704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///25693636241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/44259015036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb57efde2eb---gisutufatunuxosopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromatographvials.com/d/files/30335970689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608998f3b7b68---10162109791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102c1da258b5---24575386781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabuzukoxotimugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e8181781b---36582062381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/78015658792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb41d0f9ba67b07b78e75eac4855796b/38162559253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b968d35e8c6---63636623555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3671daac5560fb6cabdf3c79992ea60f/nerutosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97f5da04c1cd9b9b15bff299efee0f1f/16489394354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f776aca1cd0---nudakukotiloxenegafamoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2q8bbt1hq9j6bvgbcvqm4s6mn0/parabomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c1d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E8 17628 bytes
SHA-256: 314ae8e0a039909e3951feb8f0c51807b8904e46572486997bc846ebeca2a8d6
font_02_sfnt_off00010752.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10752 11080 bytes
SHA-256: f29d75a323fb388ef1fffaaba9ef2b4d6d81f8332a63e7cbc0f5c0c9835d3e80