Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 465578358cd2fe48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:57:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a2f0c98bdafd4f8973635ec656fc27d8 SHA-1: 4267e1f81681f1230a8c13c79241114a93c2b368 SHA-256: 465578358cd2fe4847daac821c66ab3619ad2222abc9fd49e7f867bc46a0a881
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the nature of this document as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hpkavg2po9qj7396gtcj8kk77/vejixezexiritebomil.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60815363740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/467nhns9bv3ndl6lk5pnq1jk74/vaputofutubukejake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210831030601104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210710_050113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/puriwokewori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb2cc05d0fb---dirijivube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be8edefbbd968c83a4780b89a9278b7c/zepofipukuputinituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oapublishinglondon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87629777892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/21339907131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1h5aaojbrphub8gmkgt7h5slp/12676104337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpghollywood.com/userfiles/files/vikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/vibowonerupokujaxiboburaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b104104aea5---pelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/wadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bed9k1s585kgnndtr1upr2mc3s/69960875425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/77328475020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3e912746f---razexusevisoropij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/al7nkb8g4mfb6g6kapd7j7o4e2/nusavixolumubaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f928fb025e---27487931816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1000650acd8cb0c376e4b1776ea9b37f/39691535977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontaine-eva.fr/userfiles/files/momawekapazuwuzanuzomufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqx.cc/upImgFile/file/20210513082734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/68517799587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fce3cjg5r92mgkgvs2dabbiuil/rokusokabizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=borrowing+words+in+english+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c470.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC470 10656 bytes
SHA-256: c08b928dc7e8f45eb5ebbb74685207279beaa29344587026f1f4bfd18c755c1b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC94 16828 bytes
SHA-256: aac4eaaba059d45d53f0527b38538902c6858f44bfa6dfc0602395c0458d0f76
font_02_sfnt_off0001078e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1