Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 459590639935bdc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

124.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 15:06:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: fbf02601e767c7fc41c50e0dd321cbd5 SHA-1: 2de4a9baf11b6a26fc85a6c0b774cfb424825a06 SHA-256: 459590639935bdc2051a22af33281aafbcaba618a9e072ca50bfbbd3ae0e8a95
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9585

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://rabudiagnostic.com/userfiles/files/vepidiwukudafebinifukete.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e47f4dfd0926db0ddfbc2e716e107a8a/rotejudipokoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/tasawejujimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c72b4bf755aa46c04d6087badd24b08e/putatemazidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797ddc23c6f---64230179805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b094311729f74f10329580d412685c4/wijoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/3524803774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0d90355dc---derex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab9422e7140c1d7c0030a9b9ec0f3bb5/kivatanagikuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/21863520263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6bf982725---78154019000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/62081274439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/gukozadimoxotasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m494somgnrvv02lm75ded3dtkr/31795694403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c14db113d---58464767077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a595df77d---6796774143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/271feebde40b0ca5ee3ccfc59776dd1e/43952599769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t2bimubbmh5rrs1d8eailosl7/sizajebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/kobivomixewatizede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/951e6e3470d68159c37aaa81ed1bbb0f/24191574604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb9e91da17---44963412383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c472d66e194c3d0fda883448ac39c2d/62271464842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97b35d941804eefe896278c6a0a56ae5/49140373631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2194ad2ee7735d895592503a891e4e3/vatipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=may+i+introduce+youPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8DD 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_01_sfnt_off0000de22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF639 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 74fe76b7732f81395bd70f1564678a12b95656d5d4b0844bfcf0c32d102cec50
font_03_sfnt_off00010dcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DCD 21868 bytes
SHA-256: b41bf83de4335a70e55582f07503c5762de8e914a75af6ac8d5b24bb6527ef73
font_04_sfnt_off000143fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143FB 61584 bytes
SHA-256: 81413149612bd4cfc016c986560aebdca0623ee555f4f1489ce490659791deb4