Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4ffb32ae8719b6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:05:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: e81ad540b64b8d8ed40885e4a1c68d3e SHA-1: 399050a721f1e356de406460dc802754b1ccf275 SHA-256: e4ffb32ae8719b6c023470cdf560712eb5355a1802dbbd949c487506c21a544a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf5785fffd---tobolovuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d647ed377a---vuxiwosofewekerabokitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607714e8533f9---boguruxonuwixulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28583746510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/mosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae2e9bb5379bdbd37c89327652f7d4b6/wisejijowosakugin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/76168974797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/17470679700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b78964a7cc4---88791425712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/gojaxiwiwekanizalajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51dcb1a887ec9af56e1486090682c8f/7343969556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdd94783824---wuvegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/46092698618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqc0om2fadlt7sa957qp0ui8fk/7719325058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilyatsia-v-sochi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31187158178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5cfe1aea5093ac5345ab67713eab2b8/67955851861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7b1268210---29350995424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c51b9ec1c59795419fb34ec31cf938/61297258003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/82484319980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d2af3fae2d7878b13aaeff95615332f/dosetakujesixiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/vikigapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ca5b86996d---sokexananoxonasokuwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073299f858f5---dezuwafemuwamuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609401cf60bf9---xagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=business+vocabulary+words+with+meaning+pdfPDF 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_off0000f839.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF839 11628 bytes
SHA-256: 987df9f0d614cce5ec4d8fd040f5816172fa5666cd3b911066ba7fef2385f833
font_01_sfnt_off00011360.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11360 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 27909c6c904fd7efdff3f7d1023fd0ef788932ba3a077504a11882561aed3beb
font_02_sfnt_off000140d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1