Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4d682fdec55fd1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 10:56:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 13b96e604a8660323f0130dc557e85cc SHA-1: 8bfd9f9de5f6212bea33de83c37ac14120ceb5ad SHA-256: e4d682fdec55fd1a518631ffb75a73da6e05ee83b1e74b14c0a0d7de11f878b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on potentially compromised CMS upload storage suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9323

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adorning+meaning+in+english PDF link annotation
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/1326883937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/7299557689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaitraglaze.com/uploads/fofawolozizakesijiriko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/10635500506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fp8aqea3a1fa5puhuqlp62735v/22027746020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/putekito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ef9827c746454e83e605a55816f5020/65489661137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/gimib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd9877de8d2dcacce0926b3e037a70e3/3608186054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12603d9ef36d4d23cd85ba7594cabc57/javomulaxitedeboxuzipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4g8f2mj3m6fnkprf8r5lock3eb/18606918751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/42774647748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a3de325f0---muxolamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609daec474c12---jixaxalamobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f002782e96---26029439426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d871c0af56---41446057616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archerelectricsupply.com/userfiles/file/zureredixej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/zotifugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/13150784417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152767878390a9c16e36fd5c6862929f/26620746353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/87031944581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb5f2c6c94a---57561356279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/49756781448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89c45a374819c749f36fa6936e14522/nuxozigamajomobiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyobel.it/public/file/sugixezipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/11214680634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753f1d9c575---15071243386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210530130043791.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000e2d2.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE2D2 20308 bytes
SHA-256: 4124b340d1f0dd6176dae8f2b384243f4bd9a501a8cc02b73fa721d6ef304e4a
font_01_sfnt_off000105f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F8 26284 bytes
SHA-256: 7c29d228d162a8f51509204665199c484c5d84e851f75c06a7dad42df4866941
font_02_sfnt_off000145dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015df4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DF4 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 48dfab749de8f03032ad2bc389f1aa03641e95b7f82e43e5f1fe65ffe9dfc28d
font_04_sfnt_off00017597.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17597 3464 bytes
SHA-256: a8161c2f5ba9235eb51b4fcc43b6bb219725019365cb8d38f9ec25dfe5ce54ff