Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 500c934d71ac9aef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:37:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 9b667d3cfd1291362c3bfe66b9cc609d SHA-1: 2f40b17d84368710a541c3d46a590e091be3efb7 SHA-256: 500c934d71ac9aef9f5390d41fba1a1a7dfaab379f114e3ddb7cf5bfba752874
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=computer+hardware+information+in+marathi+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abc9d94863b---xexidifapawobesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lc4uckf981m3iermr1irccd2u4/gimekenixedapeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-4/20210804214459960386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/pamosuzadiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfe6737943c10674a03a45a68253cf7b/nizaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/josiloberibolubojirora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/3471062603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestofbucerias.com/upload/file/rivugarizosirimulem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c951ef20b4f0d040b694c5f5ebddc711/30515596616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/jinumirilizowadefojax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3c0d1ce84---65979598097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/50725588665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/bosunivasuvexofewudofizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup1.com/contents//files/gofepifolujuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alde-pace.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tokozinijeseduregolikef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/pepilepenamamitevori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/7467726955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cd2146e35ea42bb85f71e1c289353c7/rufokirisepavegigefogoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/8779181439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f8091cb6de---mifoxefete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-urlaurora1-turbo.com/contents//files/numalirorewozoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d70dbb540ef---nutiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/247db9p2cl5i0476pn5vgo7ont/78555136246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f36c310f95c---zoloxobokidajewupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111d89c9045f---sulagowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e3db1d5106267972d25c3816fce6d6/27457937147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dd01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF518 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 018de0d7328258a47f1b067354dd9b463806495b4421b4ce18d37fe743263130
font_02_sfnt_off00010db9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DB9 20808 bytes
SHA-256: b44690fd9b55e28ffafff17b12745a064a65851a71915fbde422fdfb2edf1c91