Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4580fc499a3a3647…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 12:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f65e5045d18f6bcf8a230eb109f8ece0 SHA-1: af9ef62702a436860eb5e015222e5bd840ab63cf SHA-256: 4580fc499a3a3647289787e1dfe6b86b758833a3af96a8a4295d0cbca1119b88
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=miui+12+redmi+note+9+pro+max+download PDF link annotation
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbh0fop0q0j8vuu6r5ob59abp6/29580169731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liho.cz/UserFiles/File/terujofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ec86172ef---vigexumojaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sov.tranovice.org/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19541947620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b8f44d83c---sodirewifazibula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/nelimebixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiko168.com/UploadFile/file/20210906023505888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92sd8dkbm2er5h1jbv8uh59q1g/simajobikipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/rebonifupivasubabudujaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136a7c3f2460---83572320028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/bildbank/file/6643885450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tprcindia.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98507826905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339f8311fec---linupifosobamovokokigumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1yunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefuwuruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfoqc9kojk125buh37gpc4u6k0/suxegodafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfaaa.com/UploadFile/file/20210908123534963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomboy2.com/images/library/File/6444335674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocvn.com/userfiles/image/file/jixixukinabosev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/vubives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catherine-massage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibemewebasoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csim.jp/ckeditor/uploads/files/kilelorolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/44813783367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baocaosudanang24h.com/uploads/image/files/3886792394.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_off0000df21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF21 16844 bytes
SHA-256: a10fad74fbe462130ddfe99e4c44b307ff786f3eb475a84ec69181c34f390b64
font_01_sfnt_off00010ad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F0 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 002ed6fd8535c9fee0488fad8765577f049b7995a3e0b975747bc6b3588d8105