Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4c38ea38233c6e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-05 03:16:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 35c4507a294a2e352e8c31510a781658 SHA-1: adda9e825f1e8ec83a3aa6d949521696d5a7eaf8 SHA-256: e4c38ea38233c6e481538ff7f9670ad7ee89217e39d6e85f79dd090651af9c0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with URLs like 'http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f1115cc30---93380717251.pdf' and 'http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609148d28304f---92094272140.pdf' being present. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609148d28304f---92094272140.pdf
    • https://drsubhashawale.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gazopariperazil.pdf
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i51jvlk026rvk3jov0mhpq7il5/wamufarepesamajituzib.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f1115cc30---93380717251.pdf
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/93496763614.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a231733fba9---jularerizazewarisefuve.pdf
    • http://innobiztour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210622_2EE4D4EDB2448D68.pdf
    • http://22743333.com/userfiles/files/2949293016.pdf
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4081b5f05d---rameroramotobele.pdf
    • https://akvaguru.hu/user/file/moxubatafep.pdf
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db28311b41---71565659942.pdf
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32eda1547b---98161069550.pdf
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/1387136238.pdf
    • http://northphoenixmustangs66.com/clients/4/4b/4b49b54eec06ebba3741256e9f3e6f2b/File/2148608850.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7c63605bb---bipapanujatafabel.pdf
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e46107ebf9---kegitopi.pdf
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/gatetidibutubaxubori.pdf
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/55002036820.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700cc9c1cc5---towubawudajizonumevekev.pdf
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6830784c15---3127800037.pdf
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7umo3av2hres2p44f9ghnnh7qe/ladaxufatenolivotunabered.pdf
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d61ace423dc8cfb7fc128d7aa2a0042/88725824404.pdf
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/52314914624.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=qc+microbiologist+resume
    • 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_off00010292.bin
0868bc9cf4cf4542ff21e5c198a2d4add2eeaf9eb14b3fbd3ad6868175c8671f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10292 18116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013295.bin
ead8af1d7bbe5fffb688e939953640e9098655c276d981b2a7b8b0dc93bf95c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13295 10604 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014aee.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AEE 16792 bytes