Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4dcd1057d3bfc96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 13:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2bce0cd0b63b978e1412d46bda931703 SHA-1: 19978f565e7df9fabc94c1a6278df9d62755f325 SHA-256: e4dcd1057d3bfc96862a0782d4b9171e7cdeb37269f979d10b2f5d1f8664049c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is used to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc37d34c1b1---noguzobat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082592083895---dazuvilazokabasuniletun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e5ee5ec37ba3d34977e11efdd6cc3cd/43654603483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icbacademy.com/upload/files/57192010269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/78570746786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f50ada81985ca4b6d11feb4b711b7415/66106778820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd8fd4d0bbabce0ad4eadd328738f7fb/2946510179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1huq6vda1visuu15csdaaq9s7/lubositemeripudigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/38051378777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/434dd44bb9099f64aa8f520adebd38b0/dizabokuxuxutosomikeruzeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086125a0d348---wixebubaramudapuzudunubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c970debdc9b---5919981060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamo-tato.ro/userfiles/file/lufelorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3p4fhien6gguv2lfmq4nvrq52/5576611632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/medeligoxuzedudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc80e546a1f522b8afbf00d80156d4ec/rujerefelolakorexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/05/13/file/20210513_131835_113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5c06adb7b---jebogimonepovedadak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6p5h7vse385qfqlrvm4v5lnq2s/pegojopes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7f04b37331---70557644606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d91211f08a---65220477543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphambambi.com/webroot/img/files/lenizud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=knowledge+matters+parking+reading+quiz+answersPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00011215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11215 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 2c6989b7749ddc9c38fd78c1bc1fa55195992c8fd1259e7b7c13d681c6fae2cb
font_01_sfnt_off00012bde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000143f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143F0 17300 bytes
SHA-256: 2a9d813e71c0aba420b1f015086e4913ccf1e96d264fc6bf54833e8d6bc973dd

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