Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 495b358442b7abd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

146.4 KB Created: 2021-07-18 19:35:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 722f802cb4067dc30e1d0de8b2f4288f SHA-1: 4731381d4bda6c17eb574922d84e64ab5b6eb60c SHA-256: 495b358442b7abd35f43caedc36563d65b2499938a15580e20acc2c3dc95c901
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and potentially malicious PDF files. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8jd1mktqg0qhsi8lk6pa95ddm3/63067401352.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://guclupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/90962704988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalaircrafttech.com/ckupload/files/37734897012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832fb462f5e---gegafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmteventures.com/clients/5/57/576e8e71b788aac95a268099fab76a3d/File/29592111794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/64105219653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d0676fe1a---81496024556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607110d87e4dc---toporex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/82132101755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775e12dcba5---84718009200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/rodorafewufuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608623cee7b87---10306747619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mefejuwinewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5d57b1d14---11744980419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dmsjhj50ljak0lgbu8q5ug97b7/18622249410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1348ea9008---xukomobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b2vpncce824a3mo2ek4tlaq41/tepimimoxokapujaboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/retimuruxofudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/mamunerokeluti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/37004466266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834b76b9791---namuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/6387393582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ak94ksaqflm63pghocdkkj1btf/wekuzubizewirume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavingcare3plus.ch/userfiles/files/51809070102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=reeds+and+bulrushesPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0001dd94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DD94 18000 bytes
SHA-256: 5eb5f1bc2319638cfef0a8da70af26573dc1dcab70728cc7ad19c28350cab203
font_01_sfnt_off00020c97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20C97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000224ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x224AE 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 3acc9b8b1aee68ba5996be79b829d1a68dee91b54cb1cc43fff035989ae9f5e8