Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4651ce9f8263c3dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:16:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fb51f58f980a5db7ab617ff3593a23d2 SHA-1: d465171a9d85a2824910b50f7f6db0bf19206f2d SHA-256: 4651ce9f8263c3dcc100c3664ca336ea86c79e38533ae8ca3e98a7833820c87b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to websites that appear to be compromised WordPress installations, acting as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b12479a36ec---nipobokipiximi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vyveva.eu/UserFiles/File/20182737215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/xesuxolenisikeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjeclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jawumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/mavusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/pigifonugabipuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/pebufutijasebazuberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/70376201647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c48248a8a---34953738774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/965ef41293fbac76ebc9630a8cbd58d1/5883237770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/fupudanavesuvotob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineers.info/admin/userfiles/file/37407586948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f8ccdcdde993f1b3fb478a435889ea/xogajukajusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/kiramupojesagemujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607595ecbac87---26374279705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nesthomes.in/userfiles/file/ledutafenawidopagiwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nu9qtvn5ebv2k4lfgnos8jmu26/88615387006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071aa0dc1424---zobajiwupowinumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f2e2018e8---juruwamezefasopomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc279959cd---febomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_B831422F07A18809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38erdv5tsdgnsvpf9m6q27hkt9/widelolomolelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilskgu.ru/userfiles/file/jupesazulagusopogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cf33189f64b9c954d582b0865bcb8d1/33473670709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6553192890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=u+dont+mean+nothing+at+all+to+mePDF 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_off0000d7b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B7 21400 bytes
SHA-256: f358f0007b2877c0dc3c85c25cf13ab145e02844858a488ea7389e5d7f89b29e
font_01_sfnt_off00010a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A7A 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 22fdd0dce763153b6c828a48ead85d1b5d3594a591895c534696d8a5f9500510
font_02_sfnt_off000121a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1