Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 464730ea3291df63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:35:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b8916ecd1246a453316974526d3b8a9e SHA-1: 0a2a41632e464228a6f4e02afe3e6fd768da1fd1 SHA-256: 464730ea3291df63993b9140c9cea44d9d1ba4333629ed27450ce1825c7f74ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as redirects to phishing pages or malware download sites, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b4332f50a5d7436b0aea161fe98591b/30429862335.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/jogevoxirodatigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6540b75af---16664667685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e54298792---90136085177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd977344697---kibofipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-14/20210614103236850975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/jikoxomonewovaxagakizojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a25e7986ef03b3ec7c9d056456c462f/mexujureburija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fefae477e1---jagowuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de15c69127f6feccefcdc90977eb732a/32628603111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/532dpj986esrm5vunvpr7pc0u6/xivaberutujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f4c86ccfa4b6424eb105fbc735d238/vivujotigenimazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709533eb917---nubivogutuzonezobopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5008bb9a6f8c5711ec80020c68d8e6d8/bujufetoxotoxojuronuxoraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c95fd92e1---12115894849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a27fa60221950958861923069a68643e/megotonemuwawujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b592d5748c7---51762406228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202106230143266579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents//files/80306569042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/21099217975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/rajipajapofilifosofexosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/87481751397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38h9qftamvv8d0l32ri9l12ki7/79750875661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850630db695---sisugogixiwejowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menloathertonhigh1980.com/clients/6/6f/6f83464fe0b13873896cace574d4baa5/File/melenuvezipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=why+picasso+paintings+are+famousPDF 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_off0000fb96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB96 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 3f3716526edd07b90577c6745306a6db79b4c6a2d48bca3a0881b3fa499ab9e3
font_01_sfnt_off0001155f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155F 16640 bytes
SHA-256: 0da204ebdadc0ab70780090909d23a1a44b9da0fe89759de692093a4a86f2f63
font_02_sfnt_off00014075.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14075 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1