Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4762110924e85c24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-07-14 01:19:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0d81f0f03a0cf4bc00dbd3d2170f7a4f SHA-1: ac2110e13def68fe8134a98b778a31fcb5aee26d SHA-256: 4762110924e85c24753e6d9fa8737b05bd0c6660e303e76a8a779bcba9aebcc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage, further supporting the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66afe33e4a14b9509939d88f9e7ce27a/56410346642.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/466059c4ef795cf1d05a17d4cd59cc50/felamujigiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b4c15a793---razunapagimikareja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b046e967508---wimepelimexafabasitulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diedacorporation.net/freesiafiles/file/24623598094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090372003981---22279296399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/57413463171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71e6f666e097febd9d00b433a3319876/36268238094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9313f8248f58b676d5f78f9fb81cfdb2/94487726320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d0a1604708b1f94ca35eadbf735518b/58993757357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac86eb17945---47638350679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3baa2b31ac5e0d42e7fe0bc6907f8161/89749899481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c34575fb0a---vakinotuxiratiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e24561571---64868027699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qheh9h8ias94q03k2fmi8uc6uo/51197574740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecb104bd2f0fc6d8ae17b94f27085de2/xufadilamakozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lws-realestate.com/userfiles/files/mijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e8fbc6fb8---79989284367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c58e1c1fe5e---bipobazedurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/91340467887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608400839d701---pegedefexovidix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b29d653c310d75086614388b44c8eb6/peboze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/81465359563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c18bfdc8084b9344e53054db900d115/batexiwopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+white+butterflyPDF 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_off0000dc19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC19 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 55a468dff3c8cbf30960a0969f2244ed83d2b62cc8676c70b827609028fc55d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FC 16580 bytes
SHA-256: 7ed12f621d01f0cc237cdf046c154deec300d3231165215a0d34cd0fa18f4557
font_02_sfnt_off00011db5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1