Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 479ee257b149de3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:43:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fa2eb485b74ba863891c95e0723d5e54 SHA-1: 5dda484ef23384e1ce25ac6776da1f59b7f5fe5a SHA-256: 479ee257b149de3c5b1de576b2e833c4fe9b5205a492773985174dca2a7d607c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve to distribute phishing content or further malware stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a51dd61466b---16699987622.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/468d01fc1f8734878408cb0091d1a6f8/81785850280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safires.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobexobotobafejaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/53216121927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/31533573238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.77ice.com/upload/files/fufojirugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uf2jaa25s8lpipnhm6rojt67d4/23410145665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcviet.com/img-phuctri/files/noperibika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/genekodavajawawur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b4551c155---mubura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhizhencn.com/filespath/files/20210805172504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e2de13c74c52c42b35df611e48bf416/dizakanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/zurupolesawutamafezitojel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b3251be5c---fodafidofenamefosanakitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/76418218648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161186a7395dd4---farenesomafelifebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/93501647627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607857d42f8c0---funuwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montazerangroup.com/uploader/file/fimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/60968705224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceh20m982cjquaef8nn78kdrg6/7207645933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec43fa89ba---36522190592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvj5lhtgsdf340i36saa9v8nt7/60068726875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbcdd1f1550---18442254974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/64194551342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/zanejurinodibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a4545bd9f8da9da0af5e05ba2b4e218/rabisuzadevuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=international+journal+of+construction+project+management+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_off0000e5fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0E 17960 bytes
SHA-256: cf41d5a7f5767b12cd602902a81e1e511bd3f7709a089ff75bd0692fbfba5916
font_02_sfnt_off00012c5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C5A 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 578b89ca8391776f2246ee496a18f3cdc248fa441ea48251666c2d2ac8418bea