Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 474abf9c6b3f5cda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 9a4c6f2cf2c159d116063c7ab74364cc SHA-1: 0c7e1577e35254c4d491b07af4d3475e13a14f42 SHA-256: 474abf9c6b3f5cdab39808d54cfd9d3141c789ef9b26c3672f7bd0fb0175adb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/nogafejafugedubozol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e05cbfaa8cb1b3210510d409e37ab87/wururizaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonfiremadigan.com/uploads/fckeditor/file/suweliboziduwedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080388f69a5a---95704300547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf93884d7c7---wowasewovidumudosufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nozizidupukodediv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e0abe93a7---60779949779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609456355e347---16396519186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.net/filespath/files/20210818061314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/30847549236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ej5vj40i97151vle224bnnaj4/75093060010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plncse.hu/php_data/file/39305999328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/70636861795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45677baa6f1dba9348ee35369a6701e1/35016328152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/837ac7a356d58b64faadc5bd9e203553/32501257307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/78601046119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/vuxojofowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac7f0ff6c01179dcf21a2e65bde98207/kifefurulobevosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30264616255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a986e661fe---ladalab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotoippc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pamemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3e8a2199765203a752a4ad4fff9dfa/genuforuxoboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089838e0088c---65734198053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/wulakutarunuvarozerokonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatcongnghieput.com/uploads/files/80804019029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a256ea860a---64651451312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=reduce+pdf+size+manuallyPDF 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_off0000d63d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD63D 16880 bytes
SHA-256: 2ab5385e52b4a1f61f292d842ec81f0a1be702372673239953416eaf6a019a50
font_01_sfnt_off00010178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10178 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 0b9a5ca3c5a904ff51171568e76fe5c359674e55df2be21d4eeff7ca28d45641
font_02_sfnt_off00011a50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A50 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1