Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 468f8e9d5fe53694…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-26 01:49:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d22088b9123ad8c84c7d12ad0d998216 SHA-1: cb0c27606a54df03326386e32629ce4cc3c49bf6 SHA-256: 468f8e9d5fe53694bbeccfab56383ed8c4652c72f786c20fde9b433cf1187b1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or lead users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3d7a6234a2f9a89cdb19ef3e0e5b3c4/78422402706.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f25a445bf2d---bimenifurubobisifimiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca4161bea3---49047236422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/88553983612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b69960d4f---41847231892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4227aa9e0---5728285711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rent-1.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14454841360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyaoqiye.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-12/20210612155303821774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73582b718a2524dfff4c6fde2d75e8ed/53275668127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///88885165729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832dfdbafb2---48831308766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210623170230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/si2qgn23p01dopq0hhhncbm851/dogogapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghinelliarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/91770896750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d4332e4d3416350525ce601c1fc9039/27119875505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongdanhaudio.com/luutru/files/9664209649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072ac1a41270---32526028085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j4i2jmhogo4f5s7fcn4i49b05/91307887475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/62917405139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59356453054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdfstore.it/file/rikosetoletasemazivavelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021062718462512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/waxawofogomekuzibipamozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/79452570589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80fc2495eb724085521fd9a6ec0ebb17/nizuseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=adjunto+adnominal+e+adverbial+exerc%C3%ADcios+com+gabarito+7o+ano+docPDF 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_off0000f30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30B 18692 bytes
SHA-256: 395f3f4c64423c6c9af106c2efce4cdf79a3e79f87fde3b4bd783ab2f3e3df4d
font_01_sfnt_off00012115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12115 11344 bytes
SHA-256: ed9b663c8a5e646847b194eeaa6cd87d8cb4efb061dc64595ea00cbbddf554dd
font_02_sfnt_off00013ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BA0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1