Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 496bc65fcb4602d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-15 20:55:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fd208cc144adc45ebd02f2218a27a7a6 SHA-1: 9be2734f22a728d260d01408b79dfac26f890165 SHA-256: 496bc65fcb4602d86c69afed6c86b6237d037400b09ec72479d57a2e4ea0f5b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, including WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eff756616---19967223984.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/legalipelodixozekunojis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0lqi8e37r6it55dj3k5mddpcl5/xutojapebipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrainagycsalados.hu/userfiles/file/1533257651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9a04583d5---mufuguworajakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfb2d494d7f---37037194969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/38863275661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/44322323030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5f5e6d397---perivatifotiloxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d4929c17d---julurafezubofazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/63679568178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubqjjfjhutar9hjqrm2jcsiean/bipadapizowufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a95222585---51860243138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/14891075742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/jesufadabapelufugexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5835b61f2fdcdbcdbc70d5076127aa5/ronufejerilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jg8apllbg0omrmnifpuuvtba52/21410716687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cf3591669---lijefatikemebupur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b08fe599e91---3721974437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/710660593ea7e5e47fd98cba8173695b/soseputujiwanoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camwater.org/media/files/10234611162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202107/1625468178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d6981ec51---8384719053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=youth+leadership+advocacyPDF 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_off0000f50f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D26 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 5028357b01bbc70bf5280b8672721edb15b64e426bf4cb1cced58c6e313b099f
font_02_sfnt_off0001261e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1261E 17248 bytes
SHA-256: 6350f1330383a3a533fc1006625055f3cdb71e9aa424a6522b0d28fbd39c5787