Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4c843e2af6ea492…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 09:04:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2deea7e9dd045fc6885a970a5d66b4d4 SHA-1: e5d3d4950e472ed4a90d1f33c97bcd864aaf5dac SHA-256: e4c843e2af6ea492842b024bed002a2c459c20382f1e601829eed69b5d5ca7fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely as part of a phishing campaign or to distribute further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=contingency+theory+hrm
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vor04adl1b72kdiqos601ovpp/fagarezikitoruwuluzil.pdf
    • https://cdmsig1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/parojeluratumuxovi.pdf
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc1a356b0e4f1790bb5f7234706de897/semesel.pdf
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085140a2b01d---minibizujudabenatulazip.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd867d7046c---92334629808.pdf
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/91785959040.pdf
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094842b41334---3691590542.pdf
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.cn/files/40744444422.pdf
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5h3pd9c853fpa0mf7puq7v60s5/vepasukufuvasipatasekafe.pdf
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/lajeto.pdf
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/xokarej.pdf
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b387065c903983d48f0e350172f71689/30845272247.pdf
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210621160128.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b24d047a88---sarajuwegubo.pdf
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e8ea35814---12220248692.pdf
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071143c1560c---walozusobudusibaxuzo.pdf
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/xofazu.pdf
    • http://yokohama-model.com/userfiles/files/82484807551.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_off0000db6a.bin
885f4ace87ffb09bc9b40fe2479b3570cd8ecd782e36dca3d4992a7859d9b1c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB6A 10448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2f8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b0a.bin
034bc04743b08e8f34e3046f7d0e53433a90482a14da0ccc3ddad88d6773af6e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0A 16752 bytes