Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4e5d7d468da04fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.0 KB Created: 2021-08-12 05:42:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 6152dd46fbe3c6e0698d2d85c51562b6 SHA-1: 08158b3b73e156f43705f160f1e8fdfff97c7a6f SHA-256: e4e5d7d468da04fc003f3ee734e521b5c31119c257e791ef97687045dfb441da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity, likely serving as a lure to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/wanajamiwiwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe583fb9c69d8ea6960e2d894f58ad8d/76828719268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607847cd69dc6---xazeluxemagiled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f2bb02ec2---jasuwibidozikonatapuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jir9adomb2aoeclqu1r4dppa4/97621482693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqcghbo4hhqbtlhtgsg9h3p8ui/41822376662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakkervoorwinde.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/gamepuxeguwimokojimes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clase86marista.com/clients/25276/File/pabivawikumopofabijuboxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97ba8f0e0a7d134a8b57751aa451e995/zagevanuleporaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/jiwolet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7996a17750473f184a5fa0c8ce726254/64700421277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdd98d005a---levifavusopebisit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pulatowafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2a8dd9faa0ccf3477e7b6592364162f/8007028839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b5327fa91---87965456139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c249c19d0fb69ce6057d7b62a0c8ae7/25416045646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d78a96fd3d0bc23bf1165770d64ebffa/58851136368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/825834183b982d57fbc7b8f46736452e/84320660561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfproradost.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62054788995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e735b7b8abf3c867ce164c809f37f06/worevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c4723ce58---43685438685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/11360636795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80294574717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.info-service.com.tw/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visozinowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=do+you+lose+weight+on+the+21+day+sugar+detoxPDF 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_off00016716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16716 17772 bytes
SHA-256: fb200471dc14dd8d2246d54fc25112d4151c9e156281d8d547b91023cf9c776b
font_01_sfnt_off00019522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19522 11100 bytes
SHA-256: b850b3ecd80bbb375bba4fd60b2aae32c82577348832a992f7895ffafd94d224
font_02_sfnt_off0001aef9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AEF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1