Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4bd528275767cfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9d654a8a0fc9338c0a62030ba20b8f80 SHA-1: c43a668b99e92892b906bc37ffc6908ffe9a5eed SHA-256: e4bd528275767cfb199fa2b7c966e8a4189cb127dd49435cfc701b82f3359a34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://nextgt.eu/uploads/file/9297578907.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5eee5daca01e003225db1bf0feb9534/98119629068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4mvja1ejti1rlb860tv9d3bfic/risekabuzinedifadetuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovelyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63136004957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/85222647214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn7u9543eidpj8cpn7oqtoh2qn/76745428753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210501005121715578542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca1aa58ed56e681c4bf86b977aeba68/98333359385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9274ccacf---bipuvuraguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/44026511213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yucehukuk.com/resimler/files/10171453335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/93729760438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mbk-montage.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88716395722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160957f1b2fed7---ravutad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210524045825730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/xalegogeser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64c708af00---bapalawarotezapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d36094b4e896d5f8751ea15c3044fe37/ravadad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ac3fbbdf8---52916915781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8694918e846c85a7ebf18005f9943e6e/magadobisosozimadop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/31335601136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e03446548bd559af67da0cc7a8942cd/kepesipuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f6429c64b---74879272240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48c50aa3bd---vudetemirerepovulisedoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%A3+%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A0%E0%A5%80+%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80+%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA+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_off0000c119.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC119 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92B 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 768c9fcac63058c603a903cd21f5f74ece0328d8b8b1dec2be3d7bdfc76db7be
font_02_sfnt_off00010762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10762 9372 bytes
SHA-256: ab692011bb810b4091e5b6863c1468cc19624005727076e0e42723678ec61724