Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 494fd3eda10b369a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

160.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 11:00:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 399dad11887ebb6a5fc3156268390b67 SHA-1: 0774f77145b6b87a5c209290ae985a4251ae28b6 SHA-256: 494fd3eda10b369a62419def4ce1b734c8056c0440eee6ac139dd9bc8ef0e8cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The file's structure and numerous external links are characteristic of a link farm used to redirect victims to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=verbal+reasoning+speech+therapy+goals PDF link annotation
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc9e80a74b---24654073157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5a4b604624---gikevudenasujevawimexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pf9nshkr6jk4gjmcvrfnaunl2u/32594204411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b741920c06bd8cfea2b7f26e1d92b6/92408214656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/regijomuzakoniximikixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/8402110754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607839fb1a675---61044585688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/xikonexuseriposasovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/defesol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bb7f5308b---39250636283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c4a704e9f9---9934811554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9fff2ea635---48136821637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abb875373d7---27706152814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/bosuvuzore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd76038f6ff28c4b9813faa97519b863/61232120325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1907b9abe---mezogunimomuwugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7496131b069705cf472a9648cc00928f/37468346668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/tubisibomewifavapamivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c157bcbbe3b---gaxojigovesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb6a36985c9cd0742cc60e057a05acd/1060730064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digjamaica.com/app/webroot/files/memofedoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents//files/32837426306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/haf8l0t739eihb6fot7frv3ia4/tobodivina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/5522411460.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_off00021349.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21349 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00022b5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22B5B 18612 bytes
SHA-256: 4cfde8acbac3a939620662338af00bc219f31ee979302dbc89d34ab8fe4f7cc7
font_02_sfnt_off00025bd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25BD1 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 98097e6402e64b81ee0eded6d800645289e7b29d9ccaee2d833854e9d2c012d1