Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 420b7be384549ff7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-10 18:55:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 81a97bc11988e625950ea7770f8c1f4f SHA-1: a3c219a163cdd48665874733c43cad0744952cd6 SHA-256: 420b7be384549ff74222c693bd7b51cd129236bcf1f4ba8276ab8133d0c7e087
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=frases+de+dios+hermosas PDF link annotation
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baaf17525c4---82298768169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b33f593f2a9---tugodidudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/xusulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/np51nameu999sogiokkt8lnde8/74800665557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/6970642121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e475eb89c---41135706223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci3qa55njsuadv1nhfccs2ulv2/55833056849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d226301a1---91958271849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078af06a56b6---22780390082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b61265c50d628727074046cfaad56c/xazigokugunamidurulanofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mr4a171ruviahqm1jfr7pf3lb2/54037891730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce27696b2a---74089145672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/neradapozoposudone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1f2fc8a48---91524766398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cde5ab96bf---35688324633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001061c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061C 4592 bytes
SHA-256: 4cbd1ea2d21b160548b65c70e772051f15839fa9744aab7ea32bb80450d4e9f3
font_01_sfnt_off000115a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115A3 11584 bytes
SHA-256: e8ffa4550a25321e0e9f73490cb307bf65693931dfd1c05e98054c11c3890714
font_02_sfnt_off00013b28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B28 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333