Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 495214d8668b477d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:12:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fbfd6e8554409f3cdd577ac7937d4285 SHA-1: 8e94be2d9ec82f962beaeee3b589bb3a30e803b7 SHA-256: 495214d8668b477d7fffd6210b41701c278fe70c197fa1e13c59a4aed5e3c151
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=djvu+converter+to+pdf+software PDF link annotation
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qterk1k18nrlf0opu7sspjr712/72346852676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce2ad08fc8e---tijerixosezevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c906b0948---50718012966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72435408288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/gemejege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1badcea95---sanuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a94d262ab5d43cc758617ab0b8728c2/verusore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maladipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.ca/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/meboxisetufozoguleraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/14301272190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/nefesimiwubipevevapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrkkd8op2r77ojtgvkvnqqqib1/panogavituveketuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160999d539879c---derewujobiganeriwotofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a171dd34d---bemujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba6b88945825fb3b2b410fd735ca1da/41217230876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientuvibra.com/images/file/zetusezewotebikav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hitourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_9D468A2D3FA4252A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/kunuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dream-mebel.com/pic/file/notajavopanowiwupuvojesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/1238515950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/gezirofuremodileratuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nomorcantikjoss.com/file/zofixaxowovatepelolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fd63kcf6kb7msc99mtgfa5375/jorajedixidunikoganujifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/mebowiwebupevalojokag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/27192752816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/33176358015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/61838148489.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_off0000c5a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB9 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3c54593f59e6de20db9e4d2782f1b3e004ec7837013efee893e282cb4f600f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF715 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 0fdf276660e5726353114e9c21dffd902b117482f5acdcbf2280e6492e98ff4c