Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 503f4721e688e5f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 16:33:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 052d06c3c345a656350a944b4862fac7 SHA-1: 52a6088c54b5add2adbb652c4b9abb6837faaf57 SHA-256: 503f4721e688e5f878c1c4930f607e420ff4454e9025eabc3e5594ab17b4c1ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a large number of external URIs and link farm patterns, directing users to compromised WordPress sites that host further PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+complete+guide+to+hospital+marketing+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609630dd68ec0---44520909003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61aea43e4681d4c1c88ca13f79efbd3f/2902095036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/99306969257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faf1d9ab18899d5629c09ad848786960/37859113393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e2045109a---13421618582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/sezejap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501075312299519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792e95838c6---pupapabumuguzobatek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66ea7a13af---55709820566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19ecmvd9vm7lfbq2fsdepvpqnr/7486820606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/reduboni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeb347dc463439df0385ff5d2007ba15/zevirejezinuvibefudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/nedelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b7eb846cfecc95ab59963b56617fb8/mavovotekitelozatowebiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78567e54de---tigekomoxunumemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/80111405954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impariant-club.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37cf1c11e3df5fd055926591ea26f0b6/11344824765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f0ca30f8a2733e885c638cde263394b/54782660413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc44a5581b1---21069228547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/74923386888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a96a58bf17---48950603822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/67692879788.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_off0000e964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE964 17072 bytes
SHA-256: cee5036dbcc2d8f2191eb8fc26aeb7e8aff28286739f16ffd1bddcda9f617052
font_01_sfnt_off0001161f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E36 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 443129cef23b0344ab124a2619801717d1289369aeb9fbed3ee7522d9feb95e1