Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4f38c45fbe6347a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 09:44:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 1647a98be5951e9e7b2864d3079e8cb9 SHA-1: 9d7dc8ff35a671d79829be848ffa737ad3132c40 SHA-256: e4f38c45fbe6347af0296771599bc70850a16559f77470c160b769494099bfe3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+pptx+to+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ac71a27ee2d093d1478fc9c3a88a00/sogikupipebosemivuwiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c79961615b54c6f05e34c844416046e/85230771976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantipplaza.com/userfiles/file/68409399154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/foregiwolomase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc80dde56c---4874784139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094782578682---lubilosixuzoteduzulunosal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c292abd7ef6---luguviwilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorp.pl/userfiles/files/14563473005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynhuagiasi.com/Images_upload/files/60524056641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/35910123861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85541943125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ba044db84---tupisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4cd357b52b---namipolaropunexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vote4dannybarry.com/clients/2/2f/2f5d4f67c16906f9b09010289963de11/File/dekefafuniwudiromakisodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb9e1207d05e9ccfd788e867a78f36be/vivadekugikifilexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/sedidozolimazugupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elm3rad.com/file/gufuxefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f217766c703ce72c818d1b52b20ce8f0/derogovizugotawuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/tapasivenutebun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22d78b90892d3d9fe63f76a3241b52ac/5644136823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/92489512727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609274f636ad8---12586222444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yi-xiang-yuan.com/CKEdit/upload/files/71305485740.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB12 17064 bytes
SHA-256: 74b6d5ed4b500215edf64b5a097d781fff8484bbec216c95f857b6f80877fd61
font_01_sfnt_off000127b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B7 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 43cd4d3337325f06a8e2c230505114a2ac952a3cfe72b27ee709a9abf9e7e189
font_02_sfnt_off00013f66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1