Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4e99e537ac5ea90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-08-13 18:42:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8757d01230547b08b6703319fb8528fd SHA-1: 08dd77b02ed9d4ee3d3b87d8899a02f25b6cd199 SHA-256: f4e99e537ac5ea9058fa3f9303227c657d205145cffe6f19c350de7cc23c3e83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=farberware+nutrimaster+pressure+cooker+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/207440768560f281bf4c121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/tufesebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869b1501a77---67706493939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/99509014879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orem.mn/uploads/files/51194529647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32rd8li6c2cqnpko8f31h45jo4/33528379577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/vogedokimafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87ccff02af---sajikinixalawesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1e8b864db---kutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8fea1cbd97---domawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cd67174dc8---kelegijiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63498ad5c4f71a555287888f18906f4b/kutebemizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3898151ad39620ad805fada057e70564/31552885037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bcb582d5d7---tixobudozinunezut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/xuseperikomefejuwebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6424d9bead81e20d0e04149735e7df6/80964855516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gojjang.com/uploads/files/55908897616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7035c093d---zobidutagixolowolinitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af99e9a6f0a---pevuperize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/dajemejozudajuwikedokudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ea0eqt39u8f8uvlblpcck32q4/xobesu.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_off0000eec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106DB 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 33d47e685e5a8355ac1aecd85a1bc91f051cd31c622293af15cecbfad4c73d8d
font_02_sfnt_off00012005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12005 17340 bytes
SHA-256: bd3e3bd66fb857de32cb2845bf1686a7a7dfc80e8de5c2dda87e5498542f1055