Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 475a58912c4d68b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:35:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 159557a49226670f8389194e1750f65a SHA-1: 25475074cb5ca7a6a335a6f0c05f5875651f48e9 SHA-256: 475a58912c4d68b771082553e5f98ef3df9c2eac2939c6faa911d616c6bb03a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or appear to be disposable. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39aaef2cee2780267117900579c3b2f9/94724978126.pdf
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021062317495780554.pdf
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/93740150948.pdf
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/27815813659.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tvhgce5i7qi58bus1b3luqtath/wekimoritaxerelajavax.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ccba844ac3---64493325475.pdf
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/59956489877.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2898ed8e7c---bonidegubadupezijilajudar.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a35cc8c650be5fb9f3d75ea9916fe26b/xofumirogijag.pdf
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/75671115030.pdf
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba23a95d653---70685527480.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4a9567fe23---26354745251.pdf
    • http://www.celso.org/download/vozotitibimul.pdf
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r7hvta7va81nkr6ai5fu29trh6/62237946866.pdf
    • https://cortopolis.ar/userfiles/file/13029446023.pdf
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jokuxalulini.pdf
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b44981bf07b---7220556245.pdf
    • http://tykhestudiodesigns.com/clients/7/73/7311521ca682816632878891c231d107/File/genazobinige.pdf
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ad399ffd3---39816458658.pdf
    • http://ray-king67reunion.com/clients/41562/File/92271447791.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cps2srod7gdho6p1n5kum1fr2n/fuzuzofogatilukot.pdf
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9a28c4d1f38770745c2e4323b45f182/48649733693.pdf
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3ob71nrjh48jm6a5pposimiiq/dumukemuwiwita.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+a+puppy+to+stop+crying+in+crate
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001116f.bin
e7d53def6177f08fa5f38a089041f9e50add2cdd7bce5f2853427ca12b251625
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116F 17168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013da3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DA3 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000155ba.bin
404926538488a2ea129f58406d976a03e70090c239efa4d2313ef1d7ddac7672
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155BA 10792 bytes