Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4514c064986d60c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-07-27 17:10:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d2a982fffb71838bc004f761993798d9 SHA-1: 40b1b02b1f53651ee7f35a1360e8ed583f8fa162 SHA-256: 4514c064986d60c6acfbcb08fd43a45c4b7912673ff005d59814eaa8333b8e31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely contains malicious content. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage. This suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/67219222044.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/41705698291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cc797df9c60ca31615058100a51738e/newavin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e467e3811---pezamibegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/samimeribaperutogigur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607196ef8f0dc---sarigazitewosimatigosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/96480782478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814c4a8a6e9---33629260361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607943cc67720---xebubufarawipekapufisedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab4bafdb5e5---xofopiwodixeninix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/87916521948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af87f973cf0---77047397178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4899d24c42e680fff6705a14096c7aa6/48555278814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://residenciasanamaro.es/userfiles/files/37832103566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210714034115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/32646697650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/zisifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/560cd295ae4363e7259b351e815d58ca/49431868511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945aaadc4e8---bubijebarosiwarajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be81a269f0b---xodepukajenejajabinibotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillhouseclassof1961.com/clients/c/c9/c9b049383fb65e98d0a4dcab6c176392/File/fivalilipumeditigazoxuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff894bb4eb2---63907033451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/nagugara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/jovevofifufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=xtrons+kudos+map+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9ae959cc8---kujuxufisibew.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_off0000d422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD422 17364 bytes
SHA-256: a44034c975f1b084523a1ae084d4e62ead50785e403b53bbdeac0dafeaaf40d1
font_01_sfnt_off000101f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A0F 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 63797437543d9c98c4e45fc4df1bbaae6ecdfbcb299ea081ae9083e71c06a529