Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 489bf637d7abb764…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:58:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 48dcf5bec4de0e54753a9262fbf72a68 SHA-1: 73d1fa738bfabb103c9ef671f89c046d940eb457 SHA-256: 489bf637d7abb76493140d520bbdf98f9ca4bf3dbea67e63a1ce83c964cebed1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely intended to redirect users to malicious websites for phishing or to download further malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=black%2Bdecker+ldx120c+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6086821c03fd44fab3044e52472e0763/25852031159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theponghop.com/upload/files/metifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagm.it/userfiles/files/gadofejusekituvixipuluwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124d56779052---barurikenenevumiwevapedem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/litafakipufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nc0okso0lakc08ftca256rbbts/guwerogadazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3da662954b---52913351605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/tefobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2l55uk6f1e2vdjoekvmq6sc2bp/badepepexowususog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3492dc2015e859194e58e49c1e24e967/99555033670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081adf43ce6c---womalelovejelepuxuvabepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3bbb.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/zowalukovegepiguvajizike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pspectr.ru/userfiles/file/82910953030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/xijitukajiriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b271c10335e25208a824fd8915ffaf0/52701596391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65d7a599d2---13115305751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094da7f61738---jizidebawezime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/rononipuwawumobud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaas.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/64339659887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/42567011558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ca1c221d5e4ddbc1c7c05563122239e/51631690526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22293133430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/077825e3f9b9fcbbc261ad995b6a856a/1636697022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/490365f645a95a0891f7626c8e6d1e6f/52792179211.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_off0000e805.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE805 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010017.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10017 17280 bytes
SHA-256: 7d281a8c745ca403a1a52709c10def24bca74cec19bf9497e856743c95116096
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF4 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 5c27bd6d884ac2e54031b4fbf20644ee04046953ec36ccbe37a53a07f5579d5b