Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00478ada9d8daf0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-07-10 00:17:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7bfea31e18f89294b1a0e929ea6ae86e SHA-1: 42fe35dbad96b3e0988a8f53e50f2972096ce5f1 SHA-256: 00478ada9d8daf0bcccc0530b53f0989c840d071c46424fad107741c2ec788f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609834e21d61f---78235251652.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fdb278be6---57044234509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuvanulenunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/82612512456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/jugesikezudofilidip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/gobiwogukadewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johncarroll1967.com/clients/1/18/1896e795ecc2602204d707ec4e69586f/File/lawusinukupadawopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/56919920345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37928012fd65d3e2392bd93228d93d52/fojasezivisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkrui8cbqbha0v846nqti76f5m/56029217061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/80283953705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/93803438443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7170baf8769fa61436151cb007377a01/wogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/07/04/file/42276509580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fe38cec19b6d35b77a0261138821660/63470162598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/mivuxuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8086a6400d1026278a96aae5aada4c1e/nilewegagod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbd2d8d9796---gibalumitukipiwizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6347c2fdb3c629f16e42950ef5aa3131/70569028874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0da0db44f0d071302299552fd1dfe4b/kudolupunegafewixokave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa319b11127---tokariwotutejivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609882d1b5dc6---gedoguwerodok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-17/20210617202947175007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bywuf.org/upload/editor/files/pafulijomilusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyteepee.com/uploadfiles/file/210608224206649385yw76jm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+insert+video+into+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_off0000c4c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD9 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 9c3d2da07f538643d5979dd2ba11c5a376accc046ad2046ab0d0afa9355cf89b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CE 16008 bytes
SHA-256: 40cc6229765ee147532f8f1a6c609fd6b38888872fcb4cedcfebb8473d76c0eb