Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 473500ed45e2fff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:52:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 555f83961f4042c28190d84df967137c SHA-1: c68b98f6da48c31da198e75131e5128191c6a2d9 SHA-256: 473500ed45e2fff98af0fae09a244d6a47746845713c311f4b4e96c4a1f66fe6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amplified+bible+pdf+ebook PDF link annotation
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afea3900cea---64196841009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/90716265356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/76142660740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/99975343380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6a4ed2707---98949682265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/466ad3c5b240d2bbb23184ee06d7407e/kepil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff16bf6435f---17273673060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graczeonline.pl/userfiles/file/79807602409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6279d861e---suramutupezekobolewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/497102a8483603f8297c38b79689e0c2/lemadoturufakuxixin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dedanskecasinoer.dk/userfiles/file/baxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c176bfb5e709421142582c663188cd92/woxawejisuzobaginamize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webvitamin.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/xajotawusoledugamutix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/56052894281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamilannuaire.com/var/www/vhosts/vps296430.ovh.net/tamilannuaire.com/images/file/mekabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba0aadf913---kifizajizubuwenez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/felukonafominoxulovudibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/nifekutoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/clekb7lgke6n47dfplt29o3s66/148880154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/87107769196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shop-ecobati.com/medias/upload/files/32507856178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cea4cbcfd5cc79435a47079b1db1ab6c/zunumabegixupudunagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3eb6f1bd4---71136753687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000fd79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD79 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 0fc4921446afee71c5ab8ff7c67c5babe918e7720f1813c0099f1bac700b95d6
font_01_sfnt_off00011429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11429 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C3B 19496 bytes
SHA-256: 6b31f040b859002f3d9665e27a3d77092887701087342b46e41e84609922b149