Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 473910304e7faa8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 23:41:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2ff3740dbd6b712c2e6623a82d7bd51b SHA-1: 51522444bd90e4b33a47a20547404e3de8992e1b SHA-256: 473910304e7faa8ed0ccf30d8ed2f3639221867906469090c57e4dbae9a2645b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links on potentially disposable hosting is a clear indicator of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec888f3dd75a61c7a3a7f8ca80a21d03/rebeninil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d2626b964---vodigizubixulabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/044089906fadbf4f8a3df6322c8126ba/26167781723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/419daf3eb4f241e7a143c04cae175993/bozizunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9d97a11bc---56585181219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076606213310---69020319093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.autodepotperformancegroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87555hnlf8bo9fi7cl6obg40lt/85045561155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/54408756556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be87e7a610a---baneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af17159f19de1907b9b7e883e91c6bed/28458044120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66bb2d8930---83070914163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797edcd23ee---39557084830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3ls3ijlod56spq9s7tn7cref7/vazitimotujupoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c08ec38e1a26df10571db44301e3ce/kimujajogezijaxobemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/xafogibisiwatomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/79991431944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3db91db84e385e964056363f463b2b52/72014675403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/72928849830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ab5a1cef0---67125547087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/files/zibezupaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f0e9b70d6---26612394615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/21709179575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/545f7b88e07663daed2e413c630d6e18/dufezufexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8496a8bb8---92535624757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/zeguraneluberifevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=hyperphosphatemia+and+renal+failurePDF 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_off0000ec36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC36 10968 bytes
SHA-256: ba3444ca5e682e120b0cbadd4336d0e355d58a4094c864fbc1ae97c42fa68528
font_01_sfnt_off00010572.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10572 17024 bytes
SHA-256: 4cee1d55244f334182f4dbb8c4612cd5735b751fe4e337823581d8ec965aa58e
font_02_sfnt_off00013224.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13224 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1