Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4c4114477df37e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-08-16 13:47:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 16a7114c81b64225aa3a35cc957d4cd7 SHA-1: 9c793b04abe83da94f5aa7feb88ab69e0a76f0fc SHA-256: e4c4114477df37e3e801250e46e776ad2572cfdbb9bbba117c7ee0e44915b972
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=vocabulary+from+classical+roots+book+c+lesson+13+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4vt6u9gfqa9nhf0mnrcrppb21/sawolifamafelivoretexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a183b4a9eae---84755081866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acaf78d0a6e---72830830921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929408b01da---97973569990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/nodefazasagebimujogowekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611570c524eee---26427352105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/87134590846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaitosushisb.com/uploads/files/54896908958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4969986db5---nelulelilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609442ebed597---josoxubitidelelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd0eb9a87a---rexudabejesejasanuniwelaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/60899506230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c520a28de---7231768627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/20147565587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-4/20210704072732863075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea1253d820bb8148b320aa910b0efbe6/36218800400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winecellarkeeper.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rujekejinebepegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9173e4e9a---90272035025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/21126172115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drisraadentalcenter.com/userfiles/file/83449112175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9cd7e4cf37---sinafupilinitub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/77093184459.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_off000102a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A1 19000 bytes
SHA-256: 44c54f9eac6b8596496ed301d2e4d949fe7653569daa91572909d3b681620185
font_01_sfnt_off00013466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13466 11224 bytes
SHA-256: 55a0e285dc799b45aa0b93bd14b93599d59710615436d504a3f9b0c602030bb8
font_02_sfnt_off00014ee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1