Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4bef0db9ccfd14b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:19:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 93114722993077bef334ccadec329fbe SHA-1: 7b242619606e224f9f74e569f532edf48700f115 SHA-256: e4bef0db9ccfd14b1b85f5d43693684dbcaadb90676e166e503e1ee71d2873c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious link-farming attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=popular+mechanics+1964+pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/11327883980.pdf
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/38360137310.pdf
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f0743fa9c5d14c627a2c48117ee5b72/wiralitatove.pdf
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/26691651383.pdf
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2bb9e29a60---fekoliketorisak.pdf
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/risonedirojezifi.pdf
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/kotuzogofudaxuf.pdf
    • http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/reniwuduvaredazaramopokeg.pdf
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/50380674038.pdf
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tololaguvadisakesexulirar.pdf
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e641df2c97dccc2a77d108440524c69/24540764318.pdf
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848ce4af45a---59931181130.pdf
    • http://yanartextil.com/firma/files/vuwirup.pdf
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d7c52b220---18837902816.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609711d610911---48722081376.pdf
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/43144060322.pdf
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents//files/lurivaratosulosidekuj.pdf
    • http://matchonusa.com/uploads/files/lipejutinumibinukijad.pdf
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e88092cc71---68613239364.pdf
    • http://trendymamy.pl/userfiles/file/tinajaxujuw.pdf
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rftn68n5v4foio4rnlhbaaco12/95534904158.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/10748718493.pdf
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/lidivuvewuzim.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728ae1ed9e7---5996130727.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000152e3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152E3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016af5.bin
c1649ece33a5eaf0c3f37fadea001a3ecae5631def66306f59da50fe39122165
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16AF5 17532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000198ba.bin
9e6c5f25ee5996a8bc91e105b149f30e9c4232c0a4f18d142f050064726df13f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x198BA 11356 bytes