Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 487781857c0d3af9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 21:29:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 78a04fb339d3dccfa76cc8d4cba342e8 SHA-1: 28f911bb2dd02ccb6e49e49f10622220edcff96c SHA-256: 487781857c0d3af907b15d01ae35dc90a4942213c7bc234f2cb79d8414ef6017
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894e2382f1d---12573075338.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81f45d0d8---zokedalilojazizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eguha8m6h3s6a2ke7l4b81h989/rituxipekirusorimagunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7229479e9c---30016892724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/9546566062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db3d6b88b66b6f67e0c62604221a75b1/60961345860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b424138c54d---zejarasimiwalabemub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b346563fcc8---vixovonosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cab8132607f---49308327425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/40335750217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609beb7b245af---96739568641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829a6e90928---2316865102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827d6a8d6c6---49680033224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/231c62b5838a4c54b13d878b0edc3f0c/senonesumugukasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webelievedin1984.com/clients/6/67/676624d6593aa512bfa6e10e765af00e/File/1766410199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d3fc60122d---53922009809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/rizaveguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-dron.cz/data/file/nedobewotavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7ar90v93tgs4c39bhdkpmpjq0/gexirirobamatidutibiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c15640547c0---gatotiligivino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607500161e006---45960315571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clove7.com/userfiles/file/81189360731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b31a5d02ae713e1ec19f5df11b4cd56b/77515169491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=scripture+about+bringing+things+to+lightPDF link annotation
    • http://crossfit28.com.s125853.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/goloduvefitesusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11941 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013153.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13153 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 8b0988d671d6b5e38b83e7b8ed416bcbdd0dc60de2a077196b947462f451c3a7
font_02_sfnt_off00015e76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E76 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 8d03f5361545a5a08b36dbc3f237d89a2d60c205f389279b0293dfc6b4c07fa9