Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 497a94598ab16a87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 14:43:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c08a06f24469c6764f978a530848f7ba SHA-1: 7735b69e22e2c538b282797e172ec539c99d57e1 SHA-256: 497a94598ab16a8798748226d0f9e7dcec209b84292bbae8798fc5873c8deb6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links indicates a likely intent to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a53760c3e7---depamebe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aaae11c5ff---batagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f11558951d---panezujeratabofivesavabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbde45deaab---navemenumite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/bulipafojorutobidape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dbdb3daeb---fuxeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900ac21f519---88148466819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/redojubadozipanuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4226c9c556---80459602628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/376c97304567d65b2be96ce57e20c15b/41650676940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/62336509855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qib527g6l4glctt7o0lktun684/xewoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e84a0e6afd8ccde7935a85efdb6e18df/28253376541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/340857703a7943abd35d460e5148840c/41804101408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilyontable.it/userfiles/files/rababaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/72906443785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/39384093155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/13175128570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/puzugonifigevofaliwidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7847f994e08926bef0d2c8ae71023ab3/pitizeguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24b13e7e60---66359012233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abca8714154---givowokelufesurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c713cf40d2d---47269501052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=js+check+string+is+integerPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010901.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10901 18960 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab722c2293fa5f358f96363ff3b935da751c8d106506dc0337d6df571a6211f
font_02_sfnt_off00013bae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BAE 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 6c1f494ccc6bebc996d6768a14a03e497fc4ca65fac89df3a42f22fe145d6e65
font_03_sfnt_off000152b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152B9 16336 bytes
SHA-256: adf38969d40f501586e0caf93d33991e243baeeecfe575c4831cdbf64b7044fa