Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 469873137a75604c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:21:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e4873c5c3bbdcb8a6a024eb7f4f24a70 SHA-1: bfdc833d025e53bf79b220dd86881d185ce6790e SHA-256: 469873137a75604ce0a4354d472e58b84d22372e637612e5f00871d417e8e1c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or redirection to malicious content. The presence of link farms and compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or leverage existing vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/vepulimitukupuxiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mostenpo.jp/userfiles/files/befefozidorejowowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb87a2f056---77223821207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b445d17492---34740065513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50025029026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/578444fddd1928080b08f9de68fe87b3/dasaxixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/kamezala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072178fc9e98---paxazewopujovubafozamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloit1962.com/clients/8/83/8368a4f838dea3176655029ae9e337da/File/39532818205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843e778f7b9---guvilujomuvamoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083909b78f9b---32056760161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e2d2fe5bee3d9e4d0d5b10fbeceef1e/netaxasunonezevevoxiredix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanitaerprofi.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/80364045549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4640e34nhh75mvsmdnqg4efao/7241532584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717a4ac706d---18887095718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/paweluzoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/79744093713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/lekoxekabelupaxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/39508329857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/668ce74416eaad5d0a454e33e001100a/72978585659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/detajuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae72625ac1---rotomeromikugikaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07cde222508923eaca9923c292a6f4e5/visadako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/tiwiteneratajilufasoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ae2d28e9918eca04a6f10dc5bc943ce/10322970722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942df2d851f---fuxiferaxamukale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/julexemevakorasetusemoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+sound+absorption+coefficientPDF 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_off0000c952.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC952 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE169 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 7df548310c157af6e8864a74a91c1ce66e5bde9f3506f523e44af669305581c3
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA89 14804 bytes
SHA-256: 073750f2bcb888ff81b25f4290293427664b43a0b85b4f54a84a410e8120a138