Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 469dcdbcde59dae9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 254f0daf4086837f219018c0f1098365 SHA-1: 9a5fb4911e8ac00ed4eff6d41191552941649571 SHA-256: 469dcdbcde59dae95c9574bec81223b9d452f1b22c81420f93562eacf5d748c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Heuristics suggest it's a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised domains, designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d033a63144d0a77eeeb09f2fc8963ce2/45360511370.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b382c6d4743---rigumukitafenija.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077f9f6c81d6---towefoxufuzaj.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/vitexokalafamemudunagure.pdf
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b80868437---3493488841.pdf
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddc5df2942---51325224817.pdf
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91848983489.pdf
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210530081343545.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089809491498---32741676621.pdf
    • https://toyotaautobody.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43694937920.pdf
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/30760347620.pdf
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc27ed57943---81523186971.pdf
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5f10c1079108ae518653245f7de5cf2/88674619639.pdf
    • https://securityguardsupply.org/php/uploads/file/82664971538.pdf
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a8193b42a---nobusux.pdf
    • http://nguyenthaotech.com/upload/files/bodafugepujisoxaxodawelad.pdf
    • https://dptech.vn/uploads/files/lukusemijewarijilibip.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b25cf0b28---51623339229.pdf
    • https://prokoncept.hu/admin/blogfck/image/file/xovevemuvanugironuviwalo.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f10cc3e6a94---57534449460.pdf
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/59877475947.pdf
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/juvirebegumufazulusi.pdf
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2625cdd2c4dbb7b9fcaf337962690df/zolamerow.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=2011+nissan+sentra+maintenance+manual
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c332.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC332 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000db44.bin
32da4119558b7cf13fafa413e13afef0943971e40a3b98838123b7687573c13c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB44 17552 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010921.bin
dcba7cbe11ef4149a962ced18bcbd4b13916750524f334c0756ae4c97db547b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10921 10568 bytes