Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 473b0d5810d6042b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:50:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 373b1046e3aa5292f9752792c483ee9d SHA-1: b299a2babd34393c89f24ce7a6fc4434314b8748 SHA-256: 473b0d5810d6042bfa795470af656272d929e25e0cdf071e1b957f113173baa2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or redirection scheme, likely intended to lead users to malicious content or exploit kits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21353a5330eb0c19b084eb36d7600ce1/88962049589.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1dad9a5d9275d66da2814117c2a7119/lijuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607119681a18e---fowekufotufegobolove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakenepal.com/userfiles/file/jowak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alq2aerds8mnr4sa8qcvtf7rbq/fuderumibiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/35712907690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210516100536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b72badc15---tifuvokolepajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021052722565773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/133dc9abce42218b0c799f9331e532bc/89779066758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/zozesemifisago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91ff9ae30ee4b2b9b598a15e6e9c8dba/71570586310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d103312f764c41c3d4f211eb2d714d/vigiguma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2afec586a9---42981194298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c42aea1ce61---xofonojijuzuwipipebol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca1d91bf0f7---6380568276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2107042227489227687mwpt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c68f0b3e67226a6166835a601b4dd0e5/wesukibowudifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/40625862723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/saruxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/gomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bdd868c83---31975503925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbf8e2c1ed81ed40a0eff29c55f4aba5/sezeposixabumubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c18848ad1e---72243469361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=rude+quizzes+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000f414.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF414 10632 bytes
SHA-256: ee040a24de212b3c254186bede48e1257a71879b7f25e1a2fc0ae255b7ec53cc
font_01_sfnt_off00010c79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001248b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248B 17356 bytes
SHA-256: e0c54c8cb8c51e3d5cb927d223ecb91b971cc5165b7663b2dba4fc0440c7532d