Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4df684bcdd1e5d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-08-09 06:59:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 25dbf3dc849f6bbe22a99d9b42a8889f SHA-1: 44f7e67e7dcba0ec72cb12a2784f2a89bad99ea4 SHA-256: e4df684bcdd1e5d824904396bbb5646feae0dafea5ece73b5c23e5af6073f053
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content hosted on these compromised or disposable domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9902

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://altinay-law.com/images/file/mesejaxaveki.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/nasuberebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f51bd3b670de81b408efc1e8e9c327/65380232732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gtnp3rgk8pg3q57fsaic8q4gd/losepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa879b001e5---revokafopamavumawakopet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756c759514b---64598828214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e43206385e9d87f6cb259b9b9f012f1/24105172438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90226938557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fafda55462b74b3c7dbda5be813310f/48636599441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1a6a4216a5b25e907b7d5d6ffc3cb05/78355963006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjt1.org/upload/files/92647740466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eeec59d238---26912979766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectprojects.ro/userfiles/file/24288262051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4fbab073705564a6c97bf99478299f7/53562401946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609108b81d4be---kopemijexisafesejomefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/35971839679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.com/assets/file/vipiponodenaruvirezogum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608040d1c933e---wewanazab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf2450f949948cba322d62efcdc5032e/xotisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quaretti.it/userfiles/files/71723195964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dawnrotaryclub.tw/UserFiles/files/turulimesemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/78108573463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/85703474586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/851c5354d3fd1780dd4e52da45228d45/xonibesiraxifupako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca34c2b559---damirenelifunakivitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumnicollegedelunion.org/clients/76066/File/23944157357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d0ef91fd2---gobetumorubawifoxexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a154cd611e1---mifinaxesavemuwuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=unit+stoichiometry+multi+step+problems+ws+3+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000dab7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAB7 19140 bytes
SHA-256: 875f5f28b82f3eb7e510cf6e985a9b3f0f60e97762bc835ccfe1da72e5538ee4
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD2 11352 bytes
SHA-256: acd8656d700a1585f5629492db1931e66939a5b172467674cd0c71585e44ac64
font_02_sfnt_off00012637.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12637 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1