Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 477bf490bfd53bbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 06:56:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2fc17abe86fc09babc04e4e1446a9260 SHA-1: 38e93cff0e3f7663c5d10b156636d8ced51de721 SHA-256: 477bf490bfd53bbb2a9f4239d9ca1f57977633b572e71d59a0a6d828a286566e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

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 http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/tusezo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5204fa7ef4---ximapakebuzevew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipsbrothersmill.com/clients/6/65/65192871cce8a6e36080a9ebd2808b02/File/misumokizeratofopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/rudijokudolopurava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096900907110---bajojozazuwifezejuwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/47129513039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cfbdccbab---50021770273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangjeom.com/userfiles/file///72116656544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blatt-gruen.ch/files/13239070663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.vn/uploads/files/nodozanojinipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1ogf9ct4o4cf0e56jue4ub3fv/66575837460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datawire.gr/files/files/pivisodafikexuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/50697286047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161098e188bb96---jusamitisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae424f79352---14629703147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/tununerajimide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatshoulditcostme.com/userfiles/file/34447227424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/33669351743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb45d48f29---sitabinofuvajujugawifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe143d3195---12290052650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3k4dhfgnkp0ls7f4tf7or6u9e0/xeritimetenixilevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787c1080046---xekerirugodowulimogane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/18372406950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/numaxeluzeveruri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608beff99109d---tusidebozorukatagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=self+esteem+curriculum+for+adults+pdfPDF 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_off0000edc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC8 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 5ba3a4fc06524d66f0a05fb38ab2619225483443e23f0a828176be0d60073487
font_01_sfnt_off00011d58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D58 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 674fb0e50b3ef995612ed613701be8c500e911dde52079285a4a35235b39b8bd
font_02_sfnt_off0001366b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1366B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1