Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4e86de8e54c4095…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-06-27 04:41:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9ffe571a90f63ea22930bc7964c4513a SHA-1: 60fedc212ca1f0a810520fca12c1883beb3dfd5b SHA-256: e4e86de8e54c4095e69b3482512085edf372a23310902cc4f527c9ef63480789
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via embedded links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cold+air+standard+brayton+cycle
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ooe6vv58dfg04dl8kq5kr5q3tr/poluzutosifetezijogixegab.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8be986ec1e07429e6c90de9da99408d7/57937149055.pdf
    • https://ayurvedaemart.com/uploads/file/94311701673.pdf
    • http://dambi.pl/userfiles/file/sunanekerirofonoxazela.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e18574a24---11325513438.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160780e10a7781---40407805560.pdf
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efba281cf602697d17c34267b4779435/kumoluvoja.pdf
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b07e17e49---pimanobixonomujapotipofir.pdf
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d30973a4d44b5ea21802b8082e64cc0/68907403921.pdf
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b80363ac4---62377861173.pdf
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ed03df29d---32938795714.pdf
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608167b79e051---82591592035.pdf
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbd88h1qtjrbchrpl0rnuqp6nk/xeleputejuxoma.pdf
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/desif.pdf
    • http://konyaozgunmobilya.com/userfiles/file/gemularafozune.pdf
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b87b9024b8fb6abf683a90c312303871/1745662747.pdf
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/26658177253.pdf
    • http://theettiaresottawa.org/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/mitorakusigadi.pdf
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/goneja.pdf
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/84079212093.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_off0000c000.bin
48c9d0835f676fa3b5d58a26361f29b1a7b7d47455f0419ee25babe0afd569a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC000 10648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d88a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f09c.bin
fd6abf59a6682ea10ca43238650ce71a54118c4ec794fbb0602d7f3e1a742d17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF09C 16700 bytes