Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 484f7c5631916889…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 12:35:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9ecae080a17ce5adc8862dc40020f48f SHA-1: 08a976f66b64a72b49f62aa645a290243eaba8d0 SHA-256: 484f7c563191688924ba984b1755358d9f801c860e183eaae60a7833c491eac5
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. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the document is designed to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, websites. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=guyton+and+hall+textbook+of+medical+physiology+pdf+free
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcfjr9cl8sh9inf1ef297fg6i4/39913278279.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0fde1e4e68---46460655390.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a906678f31c5a5a7204f34bd78c4310/52303412699.pdf
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4fb799ca9---67465733072.pdf
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/1816537534.pdf
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hufiles/42243678329.pdf
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/xavivu.pdf
    • http://joewhitefamilysite.com/clients/59967/File/gederapuwazazaloma.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740c84a87bc---86872441805.pdf
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de70c8ae1dd9bd1b7f0f409a7acdbb4/lukopunuroboverilo.pdf
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/44444703887.pdf
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d00cee087a38f1118862ec33efff030/89804550067.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e2afa530e---safed.pdf
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/gosenerizilod.pdf
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arpch9254ki7b1rcmfvdvh90p3/23253018021.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e29ca921298ec1c3bfdcd1dd5bff883a/47202922673.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8dd524bc88---41635831501.pdf
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75c9701f5ec5579ef38609d257aede97/nodanesazibuguvifonolo.pdf
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eedd627cc2a9e51beaa0599698aa2f0e/25139986401.pdf
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90602f6fcf5a1b6f81353cd782995d76/58348970607.pdf
    • http://studiolauramoschini.it/userfiles/files/88962919704.pdf
    • http://jucal.es/images/file/92353496963.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f00dc1f55d372c7cbeb516d066f41ee/1309616105.pdf
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3017689512---34026353917.pdf
    • 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_off0000f721.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF721 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010f33.bin
8f63b7bc3ac82daf974ec6c345f20115c32d1759a75a8a32b4f2a20bf859838c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F33 17556 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013dc2.bin
628a41dcd929ce3d632fc7369fbcd6e5f0e707e1086853109cafc9588edcd738
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DC2 11656 bytes