Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 474c468c445366cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-04 18:44:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1288c8f50216d8a4943d70f78238362a SHA-1: 081e19bd1065337e26cc7c94a29dd41fe2129a93 SHA-256: 474c468c445366cc16c0c8e7af78f85484b007932242134501857a8ba54f3a41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://beerskiboot.de/img/upload/file/57190907206.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d9d526624---77595177415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beergolfers.com./blog/images/file/rorubufazibumibabovemak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/84647786523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f8b47ce58f---4645062533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/gexumisiparemawituvanajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b27c20bd4---85355418040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1s0rv9ne1opu50ck1ta07a14d/73888885498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e184bbe47ae---bofilevoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topup-fight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40229403812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/bubovowibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b05c3549f15f8845fb2a0eb1d1d542c3/dalolobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70707771152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c58d49edb53ca2d0eb81d77023af9102/11087838240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04bbeb4ef9---naxudipapoxufegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jdvukuqf1g1t35dhi1mr14jmj7/89476100201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/37294509334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/kuvonavefeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba8d0d9a828bf7762d90b2982d065f03/95631209330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floresdeserrezuela.com/aym_image/files/16196974156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609133de5d30d---kojimokegafeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+basic+operation+performed+by+a+computer+are+mcqPDF 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_off0000e602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE602 11300 bytes
SHA-256: f4bd4d621473c5ef92ae41f2158e75bc93e08f98d8078f9f3b69ff9162508ee7
font_01_sfnt_off00010004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10004 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011816.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11816 16920 bytes
SHA-256: d18cad9f4d0008ce3d7464c51c745b9eb4f9a230f138224b55d204c3efbb3e24