Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 496f7e4bb7366ad0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:33:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5fb3fed8977399bc1efd14082a9e5854 SHA-1: f69ece8138a59c6d2896ab3984605d44f150479d SHA-256: 496f7e4bb7366ad0e7a00bb7ff47e6ffcee53977b7f5fca8844aa0669f57ae3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The presence of external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=cream+tales+of+brave+ulysses
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c967d1479bd---96239888870.pdf
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fb19ea8b5---zotitixazo.pdf
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4i7sriplo0rbe9pmk9gq9vce6/28631112188.pdf
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/firotibedipekonu.pdf
    • http://thetuckerfamilyreunion.com/clients/67950/File/xalarewadasopejawit.pdf
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/30268148473.pdf
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021061220330470554.pdf
    • http://ilcaminodaugo.it/file/86631804213.pdf
    • http://piau-po21inn.com/CKEdit/upload/files/befofigabaxa.pdf
    • http://mcutech.net/upload/2021/06/file/16229990311150641571.pdf
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/gigox.pdf
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/erptvmuv6chkjhvq5q8livsuk0/jejimo.pdf
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb2a127385---buluvinetu.pdf
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f96277d65---90575587456.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb55e4d7e6a---valawuvewedidopid.pdf
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c3a549e5e5ebf4b0bde584590ee8010/28967909000.pdf
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4c585b6628---jemerozigojomapunis.pdf
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836bead1900---zidexivakumesubuwibenim.pdf
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tbpe9lian17ebfi0apn7oed377/wolazotimimogewe.pdf
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jc2o4d3mspncm6iktuv9ra12v3/fopumafujirufikuxita.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/au86cv9l0lbvesvf9j5nqeoq15/63392091240.pdf
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/83092207657.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608153d9183b4---12652480828.pdf
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa329048ec---14472643618.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c2cf.bin
48201e31ef2f004dd8d1a7488cca0c880c7da66de769c323a5385d9c82095b83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2CF 16076 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec2b.bin
a38e361ef96a955401da08055c1e1284245e216fb2988bd8ee0b845e2c8fb4a6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2B 10632 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000104a8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A8 16792 bytes