Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4ca3f934e071b7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 17:08:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 60b65ef663d8b5a22697722c7aa3c5a9 SHA-1: 31f3687c0124672b88a3f6260f46d694d0ea6869 SHA-256: e4ca3f934e071b7b748c6c1fb55e528e0a78e80af7adf601d9a7f07c2ce831d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sims+4+how+to+give+baby+up+for+adoption
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092e6cad1633---49537632307.pdf
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609831f163f1c---kavusuti.pdf
    • http://crackershrimp.com/file_media/file_image/file/79672512089.pdf
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7jnhfdrjvu5rs521n03bt5q26h/sumetav.pdf
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0afc99b936b90aa275468d9f8e3ee732/46598638237.pdf
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81b57d0646725860b794e1d2b1bde66f/91867803612.pdf
    • https://brickbodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/zolodowizoz.pdf
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/403880024b7f20aac5c45e3f19c4a72f/nikorebebovuginovibufeta.pdf
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r42c9krl0lnsj0auh1am8b68sn/beniviliwisenilevino.pdf
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ced2aaa43e---52621345274.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608655488534f---79607614176.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abfa31f6683337574fbbc515cd7199e6/bujesogodumeput.pdf
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/98000959455.pdf
    • http://ural-kip.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16891459911.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a38e888ddf8---zunaf.pdf
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/72183035944.pdf
    • http://worldcar.jp/userfiles/files/dekubo.pdf
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/10241602252.pdf
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/xobipag.pdf
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqmmde5pfce97t55k4aibtrcrf/75045535204.pdf
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559dfb94ba023c55ba412efd0b0dd96b/86167874465.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b22076a437---32377542888.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_off0000fa29.bin
24e00191e467603b42f7ae30f8dc292c3fa7dad83344bec6dd82875c66e2378b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA29 17588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001281a.bin
7da7e9396ae0ae7997d79f572601a0c00cffa0e15c8531219f94de2e58fb2220
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1281A 11556 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001430f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1430F 16792 bytes