Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4217a6718ce18116…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-05-09 22:14:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 6f15fa1d689e95521ff5a97aa09cca78 SHA-1: b7551b14484b23601e83f1b9d54bbe7229b9aede SHA-256: 4217a6718ce181163cb7e05a1cdcb352591f788e13f6388330644bbfef0fdb07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs and the overall heuristic profile points to a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=annual+report+indofood+sukses+makmur+tbk+2012 PDF link annotation
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb46501b7d5efd6f7ec5a15b88b02b05/renikoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9de69ebb6---voxawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4b25cccc0baa3d23518dc004b5ea8c9/12894847533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba0c8738d7e39de5cb28a2bb0da95d41/94477128175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpinelimuei7vt8carjikqvvji/27140979551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa4udob86gu0t186de4018f3h8/39706463677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/52770692152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/dibosuriwekizatitiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed0817006d3df6eeb878dc6b50428c22/popopapuwamudowuzanazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef7uu9eglbv305cn4obgoht1e4/wizuzitukusajege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608171272b01e---36422778134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s26umdm417khtq3jutl2s2f91/suruzusuxazufewalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/70028472600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71uim477kg252jna0gfn43luj3/zaxavowumejesuvolotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f50545a2d1---52132378699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce3cd346e4---webubirakolimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD30 5704 bytes
SHA-256: 15d2db244f27c7955fb7108c006940ee772d485a61000b3c61fbe47110735d55
font_01_sfnt_off0000e087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE087 10464 bytes
SHA-256: e466ed6fc6241f1b9491fd6a620c3b309f0ff3575e3c70fb8674f159b0600783