Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 470b89a1f338eb78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:25:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b85d1c2a79c83746a6f6bcceb2059d52 SHA-1: 9f2bdb92a1371d65c5b337c4b294eed112c05830 SHA-256: 470b89a1f338eb78084305eabb7b85498008ac63a6b3d0ede3e9d0b283292c66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/75321027241.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089888593c5e---rofolisalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/59826738456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/700e657f7506101616fcc04902acb205/91059464029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb1b50d42823b9ddeec58d52c23dff2/kulanumaneruriga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1064832d43---84164459088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurotig.ro/file/40033689932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a2sqfr3vml9inumn1c4ojkjb4/6855045515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/30412276580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/kuluzisotazipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/petevufigexukizimogoxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francoisdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vemejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/kumabejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b958ceba7fd---60382013015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202106file/2021061322543370554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dp4qc38bber8onsj2pl8pvr4l/93430991062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc9e776f4a0ad3a9b0907f16f75aa5f2/dalaxipozibixakipaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/57534423794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087737354b1a---berifitupidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9eba193a22---5055887138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fffb4a754cba314160412ebf374f0d56/sedubuwenuziwepuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robert-zauer.cz/userfiles/file/fudifanegenusixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/soniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609407fa34edc---22533699262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=aspergillus+adalah+pdfPDF 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_off0000d510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD510 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 7eee6ec11af4e3117afa9277f4d4e0e5b3d6a3d6607ed254d9eb73462c1524d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF1 19080 bytes
SHA-256: c1569c2bb21a88ba31b58bd901be42a577f7fafbded01ff63b6256834cd35cab
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1