Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 477b44e689352d9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:57:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3fce7cf2e0059f91329d7c5276897171 SHA-1: 69e44ead1798554bd58d4e01fa815ec4ecd0f1a1 SHA-256: 477b44e689352d9a30deea0ee565108df4404fa9087689fc40bad3c6e5b6210b
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 high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/gukolujuraxelaluviwud.pdf
    • https://blueparadise.pl/userfiles/file/pudoteb.pdf
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/87165819080.pdf
    • http://xn--rssx31a7tec6p.com/upload/userfiles/files/20210916214546.pdf
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/56961242085.pdf
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1aea3b34ccd0e29aefb2b2ced17010b/2868396385.pdf
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/78029560742.pdf
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/viriguniwosijewefizugafi.pdf
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de51c4a7d5fa34a1e2deb11a03282c4b/56686263278.pdf
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90475044002.pdf
    • http://fasson.vip/images/editor/files/94977474334.pdf
    • http://www.taxivanclass.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/wetetuvi.pdf
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/55839010951.pdf
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/72542309043.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjkht9oekjo067v69j8m1kq0kn/bejubakodekuvavidopome.pdf
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/75155087751.pdf
    • https://marmetal.cevhertemizlik.com/userfiles/files/garilojogepimiro.pdf
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/puzijupegetasibubidavogaw.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d06b0653e5d3bea4d75b8be1d19b8f74/95015026409.pdf
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/86677795701.pdf
    • https://www.passion-rnd.com/upfile/files/2021/09/08/lanoxigofakowarulo.pdf
    • http://proficlim.ru/public/userfiles/file/95997874899.pdf
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28037369948.pdf
    • https://robindayne.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56534937599.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=delete+audio+from+video+android
    • 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_off0000d811.bin
950cd61694b13ebed7ec834ab5ca5195854b692c8a56d9a6b698e4ef350618d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD811 10516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eff0.bin
4887bec8cfaa84c121d7ec581d616396de9f3d8d3d808e328dbbce6e09128c7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF0 18700 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000120a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A6 16792 bytes