Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 499c3baf09027a29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:53:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 295ae75fbf709d63e9ac6120d324969c SHA-1: 0d673afc05aefe3011115b8dcfa0b475d892b42e SHA-256: 499c3baf09027a2998de43b6cfc8e72de79013a5c9eb461cdd750ee4d9c03e46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially evade detection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02188ccf5288c0182ac6e49fc884d958/fujusi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a45e9a999fc---28557572715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5baf70ec59b87ca8801f2e1f91966bac/87924102322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pukj5ca6rrtklpvof2ufvp6tn/dilakugimeriwagizagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/fazimawixotutajuzegaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daugiavanthienphuoc.com/media/ftp/file/26795184962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hesexpo.com/img/editor/image/file/66883795152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/lafafefosunija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaservicecenter.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lareredowogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86bd6b8bb86d4f1a3af4b08739571760/jitemamufemewepukegidopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5d54dc2f8d201455380b169d8a9367e/19025641830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/37621946244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089333942ede---47443913383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab91e838976c271cdfa394402c85be10/gudekimurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/zetetasomegexod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greaterdeliveranceministries1.com/clients/61527/File/fuxowotativulolafetet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/61438473136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/33173012320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journalofcritique.com/ckdosyalari/upload/files/netegerugojun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b270e488eae---mijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textolinguisticsolutions.com/upload/editor/file/62392534131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/3085250553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/449e97461d19aeceebcd82ae1ba0d6eb/50044587370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/40296862226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab60966cfe---23902323167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d65d95228---nilibavafipobegelala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e8c2f2a35---59213111808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=romeo+and+juliet+act+2+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000e9ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10200 17200 bytes
SHA-256: ff2de2826a6b69cca152711073503628c145329495f3d647331391ecdd965405
font_02_sfnt_off00012ef3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EF3 11456 bytes
SHA-256: 8b66964e652e4021e342b5747b796eb01673efbed0cb6956d9027f5c0290a042