Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 489994ddfc7d40cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.3 KB Created: 2021-08-02 18:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7f3308790742f3411f3c24ef8a37c8ac SHA-1: 7021a667a6684b147a04c4d60ea72388c725b7bf SHA-256: 489994ddfc7d40cd6d5183f1b62bc3d52af799074be964f8b7a6777869992569
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 critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa6f693e2a50d73db0e1941ad8c95f68/84224546724.pdf
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/68975146792.pdf
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca160d8029---27330408209.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a130b590a---jonijilotunugewemudovade.pdf
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/jiwifobabirojuzonasopi.pdf
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/82728221064.pdf
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1dcf101a2---83595747982.pdf
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0506749fb---28820607473.pdf
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7c1352d356---kikeleneru.pdf
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/badisu.pdf
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/ladizozofuderubedinaje.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qg6mra0cjjk8jur6l7smhf58b/wujifuriwa.pdf
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uit07apcp5mag2ffhgvh99dlug/sigosolute.pdf
    • http://mdknoodles.co/uploads/files/74206771428.pdf
    • http://fotomil.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xupixamudip.pdf
    • http://brnc85.com/clients/878796/File/60989510218.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0ba08c87b---62537095852.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/botiu5nsiigv12qa6sae88sj81/segoku.pdf
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/bebaw.pdf
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/71002563258.pdf
    • http://cnex.cc/images/blog//file/30455212527.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608133cb11de2---nepuvibudagefatufip.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pr%C3%A9cis+d%27anesth%C3%A9sie+cardiaque+cec
    • 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_off000134b2.bin
78fa219344a0bc4c7ac90e894e758c4b3164d3b012b9a65a710eae040e0e9333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134B2 20928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000168c7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168C7 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000180de.bin
fc11d6b4f3c8381cac589378d6e48588d81c3f5341852c6f096810689d45482b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x180DE 10736 bytes