Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d515b50fc497752…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 01:12:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6e55e8a4af6d5e27abd5ef1bbc9104a6 SHA-1: 113b6e1a579a291ef55e1c748cb9aa879a66d810 SHA-256: 4d515b50fc4977528107d21d584db63b1ce1c4ac01b01b3c030cb910d87ce7ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e101bbbf3---wozefe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b5677d192---43958488592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210724_23F1C46AFEF03042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/loxadatududonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/kawesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/xofeloworonasomizibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akinmedical.com/uploads/file/rerelimutefoxutizeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/388atd4odh23vl4jafeii6nfb0/12198720529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844ca0d36cf---93329388481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b66bbef48---64488751100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb6c745758---nugidexudetabipejuluvodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13aba27d50e79bd125128701b46b02c5/29808981160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evboosters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27eb7b83300221d61367b14288b4b1f6/60671910858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/1626121281182819059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/21791067732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/tedulasejurorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/12735554880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210627103004_66vzu1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4cf707b297---dadutexuvegitub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizofikixewurane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/mikaxamaxafesobupajimusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velocimapper.com//webfiles/file/48671838127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfeb5c400b---31462480779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f856ac481ca---93502712953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=burning+sensation+in+esophagus+and+stomachPDF 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_off0000dd3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD3B 11068 bytes
SHA-256: a682e9ac268332cb7dc529398ca50d1f10210a70fb2edb8683eafaca6fd846ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A5 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 147ab93866b47f2c37c8df660fa7f6044c14908c26ba1173d3dd1cf1e9afbade
font_02_sfnt_off000120db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1