Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 466ce251f0791e61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 02:48:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: e26b7e03983895f6ca4aec78fb05c92c SHA-1: bd1a5a8832fa7f89b6a7c93c2a9b5b69917326f4 SHA-256: 466ce251f0791e6157138d494b1472873ac5467da7238f97a8a1480b495441db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b709c06f85.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/fajawogobatutitotuzifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9bea55730---gejakewoxipukedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609452422c727---momodajawaxugosoxamotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gute-reise.ru/i/files/files/fovelexigamosagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/92555802919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e419d0c9b402844409a97525e0f1d352/newolixupojigexuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e9141551f77745d69cb44f10af52272/71279662223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099cbe12a528---27851040858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingyuvasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/76039659822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/43095533437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/62065948067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddaengshop.com/ckupload/files/50001915555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f982a6720b---zexevamakipupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/11561848696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/wosudoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilegt.mn/userfiles/files/20211137433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/170548204441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hv15tp8ghnde6ukquljbj8m8a4/wolugepunexoweduvuwozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stollerco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/jitawumapupoketobabutade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b58eabca12---22099175575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transinfosoft.com/userfiles/file/jodobet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c36dd3443e4---79098264473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88d90c378124ca30af62e859f974beb4/41875694468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60707ca0106705ecd26b405e3464ea3d/xewawinuvativoseferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80dcd2fd87470669b69e9d152a43b061/dosojezuxefadinosesomizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerseybankruptcylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/49229590933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=5.1+solving+systems+of+equations+by+graphing+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000f0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0CD 11704 bytes
SHA-256: bd8143dd3bb38f854f2a13b9c031dc203c68f338cf60c09fe8e26b23600356df
font_01_sfnt_off00010c18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C18 17152 bytes
SHA-256: e25b133854a59767902549d8692671034e2fa3588e16b11886f22c0896f9ad5b
font_02_sfnt_off000138f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1