Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 494a0f75bbacf93a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-08-21 05:04:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2b55c5642d2603b005eb80feee72e7b2 SHA-1: 4a028737c442873c0bc0272a1e38183766290b63 SHA-256: 494a0f75bbacf93aa144e2b2159446646c66301ca910249ba936cc36733777f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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=what+is+parallel+turning+operation+in+lathe+machine PDF link annotation
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fa9afc6de0d17cb27b3b71fa1243bd9/gesevuparivavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f3q3ue1u9h32dmrqlvkvb6fk/28072440004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szud94.hu/img/sajatfile/files/41529530212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/99051223282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/bupimoxogepume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcd6c45dab---58128398097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1bebd64ef4---70041073611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/voron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e48a865c21c7fa8ab6f81857361f199b/pafobuvakika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drai4gbbuksjbpsupht5tgj221/favopebigetuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/5061917954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/12569538967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/11102704080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/14559959182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1audgejbqe6sr23l0fsnp9a4r4/tibijebisegogimawek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/vudigivumojowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106060472d63---pevavivapibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/409e99df5ca6c059eccef679c8538809/gasugotebojenumosarade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a92ea432efd90c704c14fdd8856b0b1/sefobebugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79321258880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/15400994294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/zugiloxaresapebafebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754017649d1---vebarokululalube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogaarchitetti.it/userfiles/files/ralizujane.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_off0000eec4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D6 16592 bytes
SHA-256: f8ff30bcc3c9d501a8142e8b29b7bfd8e182176688e96058c12d31ea6b0f4a4d
font_02_sfnt_off000131fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131FD 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 663c686b185ea2b55f9a17357fccee02bf8db37c6e4398e8dd2c5cf7a400f7c7

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