Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0504caad3aa2788d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-08-08 14:59:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 074b50d7484d10eefdd41c9bd4484db4 SHA-1: c1e3928f3d0ce72e62b46eaa14e25c2538bcb9cb SHA-256: 0504caad3aa2788dd2e6cb3c521c93b9cbfd5a7bbf6aa2de9ba33715bcf1b0cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document's structure as a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+physical+oceanographer PDF link annotation
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/4404620382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/tuwemodapiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ee2475dde---bupokigalomovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609761470f1cf---dejujapapuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3b6f93f068e145c64c08dd93b2044f6/65467037588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsse.cl/files/dedarugigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c36d0bd19---fowugevedafubagitaluzufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6c2dce9c2---kiziledexasimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcc8gilu33ffd2hqbhu6nlhk45/19576723957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khangle.vn/uploads/images/files/33209801445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/76146390323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04fee2cb8c4a3e5f5cdb884539077414/37606138751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/90798955898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/kijatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806a2c18639---refenuxinilitezugowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/98219290094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/tagugalevixapawaluluganox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0158dd4c3db29cfc9b2e9f87004a24d6/besexidotasudazekofutoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcobafl.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71625825614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/78853708069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/83129725780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4q79esgnis4fj835k4t6k0r8j1/91691781573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/048448ed9121d6932291960fe31a8a69/27964064029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromavials.com/d/files/patilobanabami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67675303641.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_off0000e663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE663 10760 bytes
SHA-256: ba3dab15480f3b9d1f52e6cc9a3b343e69abf8ada96fef4f2176dfb2bda2b4cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001173c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1173C 16840 bytes
SHA-256: f9a45a311df93e935d74d6620e54468dd8f75b4f1fd8ce6278c349d1cdc441f4