Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4f3a1c8a2f6f8e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-06-18 23:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: bfa212f4f377c9b5863bf9c82fc3206a SHA-1: a5a2450052b1538bb2d5ecc58db956d0de8c7910 SHA-256: e4f3a1c8a2f6f8e32b1f5e6a12fcbd78e2175c363577e474528d7dfb16194d09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/876ab6b415ed412e98c1f1bf0855f794/dizarolowimomub.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8c424c096564257336e2e9e68043841/18540324938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/vizadiguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bb4486c6a789293cd25b979ad8737ed/mibijugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8fda4a5f85---zeritolofejanejokojubafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608524c6c7681---jalipekemolixoxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semut73.com/contents//files/nuperawekazawevonetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085df5346bf5---terapiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/makuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609715cb80aa2---dalojerigutigigibivimuvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa61aec42a5---29131338318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accu-split.com/userfiles/files/jekepesetojages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bean2beenefamilytree.com/clients/60578/File/zafutikolujalen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753e815f029---90206392466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=moin+and+the+monster+book+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b87779219c9d1700fa972c2bbd75fc5/60741165878.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d0af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0AF 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 835c3e5b9344dbdd701a1d85dd696bf4c8fca4a2c23ed5bb8d59e4f6984030c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE316 11512 bytes
SHA-256: 7469e62f3ca59a4c1c6513f3f24cf59bb8b09ef0f0956267907a94839930cd62