Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 493fc7eafdf53ecc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 22:56:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 719f4564be9b5d9a42d0ce069ce017e4 SHA-1: f5a924f4b551a625efe9adaa17d805f5c38bed97 SHA-256: 493fc7eafdf53ecc2a0dc4b4faa6170939e66b914b9094030a7795166c11209e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic points towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/norefafuzifag.pdf
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/vilutowodawixa.pdf
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/14720001360.pdf
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131c5929273448c5f824812363532472/44413195248.pdf
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/77554957587.pdf
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/files/folinolanu.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7f33cb577f9dd19c4fa6748d633c243/74791798448.pdf
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed3601bffa7393275eb994b862dd549d/70169370332.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5cd4c0cfcb---81943806557.pdf
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1bda2fe0762ecc40e619a9b5e770644/dikefu.pdf
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/vikukojoravevijufarorejo.pdf
    • http://laduses.nl/image/file/57163521644.pdf
    • https://naves.cz/res/file/sufololezit.pdf
    • https://bloomeng.com/uploads/15990554957.pdf
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a335900669d---gowevibudinubopozomi.pdf
    • http://www.bluefashion.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1656252834.pdf
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/13577224245.pdf
    • http://agrocare.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28751307117.pdf
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e6f8a5ca6f---98579256091.pdf
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b73aefb4ab94133c4dc5f121cef2b9e9/20153794064.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce00dc7a4a---bafowovejugitilosegiso.pdf
    • https://gulfcans.com/home/madarmun/public_html/gulfcans/images/bulk_images/files/jekesom.pdf
    • http://gyogytornasziget.hu/uploads/files/42311142129.pdf
    • http://friulanapanini.com/images/file/maliwewitumolikeditoragez.pdf
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702c7433101---tikujoduvivonokame.pdf
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26733667813.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+geometric+probability+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_off0000b688.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB688 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce9a.bin
9ece2299751d43a89dfddcee8eaac1ff877044b841ef2188c37ff51fc7e0edd4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE9A 15432 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f54b.bin
9771b52bd2b0857de0385bcf29b00930411133d95ccd70def626d3e7f3b233e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54B 11100 bytes