Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4685e5a8f516d2d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 23:56:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0b267c8394e30ee5a2e2da46aa820537 SHA-1: 2c504ea1ccfb43d7b0b40bcb42c5d9cc665c5f87 SHA-256: 4685e5a8f516d2d79327f2c11a7dab161194b682125e0270a9884bfb127ce9e2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of raw IP addresses in URIs further indicates suspicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b22ni999h844rvskiup2n24v1/18253308053.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lbtech.kr/upfile/files/48724048628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orsolyajuhasz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusisob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f654c37e0d---pezopuvokizodepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/48091402091.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/nobiwopupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dc992f8ddcb278e96c34af3807b7b45/mijawirutozabimubitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f69eb5367653c2fbe2d3f421fa285edc/51026843220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb1eeaa4c94569dbf7459b63ca6acaf7/66171388777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propellerclubsandiego.org/uploads/files/43065307658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sintsprev-ms.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fozuvegamijigujewoxasefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/558c80137648ef6c72a73e1aa8b0ebce/depuxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/tivagikudipewogosapiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/titaduboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d53601a2cc0---guweke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929d676381a---99491855305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wfuchiomega.com/clients/4/46/46a815049f9cfb11ab63b386d19cdfb8/File/4889573348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/91532975022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d573e0bf48c---98289951754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/9109446737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdf7f92d21---53994722197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a53ffe85fc10cd3c510c3c632f8257/14233202503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=convert+milliamp+hours+to+amp+hoursPDF 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_off0000c993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC993 17016 bytes
SHA-256: 476095041ffcde969a60539e09777da5b77ce86a711e4a752637c72e52459e8a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF626 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 9a255d7ed87074d820064a959a50b5ab82f6e2540f3c509b3994a5c104588939
font_02_sfnt_off00010e97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1