Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 476942e0213495ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-08-15 02:55:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4e8850e65fe8bf676d0f83091d845341 SHA-1: 34d49997c48c7b5c8d21731c2a6867ba5ccca7cf SHA-256: 476942e0213495ae9280055465a8543a011579452819f31d8b4a73ecef508c3e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content and exploit user interaction.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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 http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898b9ad0447---sasile.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06c79339cf---jojapamarozesabebofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d68773ce3d3bcc65f24673431b22662/12705068648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khodahoanglang.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/gowilalupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8asn8786if9098glghe3bvjlg8/55396247419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/javawakevilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/71348188894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/fusopevaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/57285285564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/bazurenefevixejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.net/scauserfiles/files/44887996161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607371e046519---duxabexobujaxisiromep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33403935578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2ba8861be2ad7e8565ebd7a560e6a51/xapiwasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8453b32bdb936fe351778789629a5ece/83936844022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87a67b6d8ada0bde0698c0ed19fceb9e/24519076099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/4953607296096283f3b083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/kidaxuturexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/zisonowevizabotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfe064nlnfj00llqq36jf4msr2/susimexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/079d79a91bc8911779c12ed6c5cff433/17087577630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807166d88435a887c71e617fb9d8b951/23729000125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/sekapatazuweneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbc828a74b---81997074690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n7mb41v0bk42r16mgnqcbuet5p/71484154628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=o+que+o+administra%C3%A7%C3%A3o+de+empresas+fazPDF 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_off0000e3fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3FD 18628 bytes
SHA-256: a19a8b8985370b9babca5f8d87bca725356d49f88fc1cbcdf25baa85c8ecc1ff
font_01_sfnt_off0001116a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12981 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 8a6d7b52dccd935f3c66fb97a08c1c68a41e6aa74e189db45e0b9da8dc174cf7