Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 459f3b0b95c07ba1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 03:36:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7d50ce18d7c22348a78f5cbccbd6b7a9 SHA-1: ad7cc4f87848a0d7d55a07852d76e7434d98449d SHA-256: 459f3b0b95c07ba1af18fd854eaf9807857ccc01787530755ff49298d4002c73
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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 http://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/nikab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/41862230486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/kutogetuxokutemaxilini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-6-1/20210601163325635352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ef8f47f40---tarexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vantaibactrungnam.vn/upload/files/82343959590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakshistudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56221415987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/627a0cfaf4076055881faec4e2099a0e/13408244490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56rije401hoktjj981occuhf86/67687155461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68c34a742d---87270285406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dc3ba627a7af6cf37aaf626f846e57a/dimobekibejevupojofilate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/37977221612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopcuhaiphong.vn/upload/files/megulamepafadarijefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/xiwozomoronofipudipore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/belerevavusamezewopuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610559f5e309c---39846732892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/wujenamolufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcs8k3vvokdupt2plh922s09k8/xezowobojuwupozuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/mifurobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daivupaint.com/img-chamthi/files/gakasotimogimavogija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicohigh1987.com/clients/47015/File/giwipexibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d23dd2daf43---75006363796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujitonweb.com/userfiles/files/sagora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citrasas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikegevozoxipobituginoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avatars.ru/userfiles/file/27775597308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=caldwell+televisuality+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AC 16632 bytes
SHA-256: e896d0c9c6509c93731645541c0836c845742b74f7fde2e8ff5e94baacc6a6a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB39 17608 bytes
SHA-256: cd3c979d2441d698c872b200c79af8302d27749800651e96db87cc507d22c964
font_02_sfnt_off00012894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12894 10564 bytes
SHA-256: d857038ca11738a76c222a5362c6141c1c1d25bdd30d64c02195311b79f294a4
font_03_sfnt_off000140ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1