Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4500bcca98d7c682…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:13:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 579f682fe0c6ac6527c3bbbaaa8fd4f5 SHA-1: 609429b80751f8a6a9596becca150239c8fe825f SHA-256: 4500bcca98d7c6824cf1bf2e8f6cb4e88126a52c2b8dfe04cb02376a6c1ae17a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the file is likely used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/burubis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bce52fe163133304d07d3c9e9714e526/jebavurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/58726231019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/54688658856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/59202357039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bizufugalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/54687272062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d5e8a1f662d0597ac48b3572db3f56d/35927658913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607513262a0e9---47275378691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b9f5687c6cf475fdcbb589e8750f71a/wesidofasezekurazubibanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111604a27d87---vegipidafijugamowifufijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8960a404704596319d1212093e41e884/wavarivezavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b33c536a7---51544935573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8db81dc894c71ebd4f9b8bf04927fc52/24965437040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5l2rs9s4j8dpifjst3jg9sh5bm/terokepazaremoxenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075a86a1da89---11382903768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krono-original.vn/Images_upload/files/15198163654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pielinks.com/UserFiles/file/jagovarulufuruxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b272ed4418---tujovaxoxuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/dorumoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/zufilakisafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhsclassof63.com/clients/c/c8/c8cc7cee7579ddcd469b669c0eb172d8/File/13918503680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db762a8721d---zevuvuzezijopobodakino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=question+answer+of+poverty+as+a+challengePDF 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_off0000faa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAA2 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 094c226688e39a4d3b16bd5168f76f3684de3569f64385867f4e4fa8be6533c4
font_01_sfnt_off00012b35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B35 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 9fd371059290c1ca6beb1da3aed6554d9e6ceaa286285ae22330d982f855641f
font_02_sfnt_off0001458e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1458E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1