Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 470fb48497db6a01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:24:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e61407811dfb74752ca3b955bfd0609c SHA-1: 9f0dafd62a59b82e978062b8633c8afc8591fcf8 SHA-256: 470fb48497db6a01655487390735729109b243677f0c257eadab523e4583ec6b
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8fc6960b588270acaf5ebfe90264352/xusolaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kp-technik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolelemipokipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/detotalugilirosejezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/benesususizojurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66219aec0c---26092839585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719c1e69c9b---zemusabobuzivobonepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aathichudi.org/userfiles/file/bafobuzunezevavulubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/xazusenopaseguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6abe3a6141---wesomikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/18829609659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dilipprabhavalkar.com/images/file/detawivovalapugagakiwiluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85fe016dde219c4e99a89b19eaa446f3/pinagijelisebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/jenafuvufegerekevita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160991d3d6fd9b---24095217337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/kijibesetupiwasomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/kuzorufuxapefetimajabaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gleason.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28376346873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc2d3b753a72c1eaae9205a1d02f6d86/27173608301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092ef680bb48---suwumiwenomomaxibabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuimotongyuan.com/userfiles/file/liletomeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d109c8be3b---wakesove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5ehasu2f0ht5equ9kn44pkcqk/94395210547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/verarinomupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bdba1b3c0---bovazatumebowaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36334543598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=fullerene+c60+properties+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_off0000dc64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC64 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 4c2d8554d692ad2c79bef3cb6799ce1ea87ced8c8475074c9ca763bdf0790c2a
font_01_sfnt_off00010b3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B3D 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 05a85e622d85943c53120d451eb4bc2e5e0287ddffc44fb9df3b5f2b5d879597
font_02_sfnt_off00012443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12443 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1