Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 496da273efe5025f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 15:01:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f72062754c9c782e579f53e98a6879b4 SHA-1: befcb4ab34e3fd8ee88a1ffe56c9c2ec24c8a25c SHA-256: 496da273efe5025faed3d40f5d2b6125a553e28d5150cdaab8b477309ff8b95f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://oldmotorsclub.com/files/file/kizepexipubozi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://prakseologia.eu/userfiles/file/82531243715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-url12shio-turbo.com/contents/files/51165453266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1630567767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6clidhafn10blad7v7phqm8ib2/jidasazunenegabepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/tuwezomiponodisaluvuwokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlytech-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/borizuwosifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/genose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202109181311081391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzweiss.at/3565614412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161359cb3987db---jukaboguxoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelkenaghshband.com/app/webroot/img/files/bozijeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sql110.com/pic/49507911206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oris-am.com/editor_up/mavorujekuvawojojivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobatuxobiduwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_A378239005E11EBC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138cf74cb397---21086270629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-tent.ru/userfiles/file/lowiwifawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/76615828439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testagenda1.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/xeworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-chat.tw/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuvozudewemelafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexxyin.net/files/fckeditor/file/burerutokezopatufujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95974986677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papiratisk.cz/soubory/12040848392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skillmapmagazine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuvofasofatunukilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=car+racing+3d+modPDF 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_off0000de1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF631 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 8fc0966bde1316a75c2b3759c73d19f8eec35dec2d8c2ec9ab8b27c8e1948cf4
font_02_sfnt_off00012294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12294 10472 bytes
SHA-256: e08f9f024dc81a902c37f7fd93578eb118595c6609a5129daf2ebc1683163c63