Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 504bd5f124949b74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:58:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 238e43cde4a07ab6fe09a73c029f7e9c SHA-1: e226163c6bc629bb273044997cb74d056ff64ffe SHA-256: 504bd5f124949b743008f23e57f0f5dc0ea5d9f5c685ec0cb270c9eb5808d5c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely for SEO spam or to host further malicious content. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces its suspicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25ac5b1f7e8f8d898f2c4c2d519c650e/83119282542.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c1qgqm9q1arc6opk3b03v6l74/pisorimutukalib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/xalemebigopofonunuzuxazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/uwogezusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-senior.ch/uploades/userfiles/file/vosuvexunetebetime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e641c37ed504d6b111a2537e83c04ee2/78405281597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1cbef16f7d---52752321850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/399633d7e2235fa49d003c26581ea208/96352857666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/088hodmp0ncqak03nkkevb490h/84272761734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef5b5e9727---xebelokafiwexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aeea3a2bd2---47216529880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/xaxoxedudiwibitiran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99fabae41698172ef698a048c6c293ad/99839186701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cecfe9383a---68406350642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/nofetima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc88fba1b04---67991178041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c8912a29ea---81466289378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fong-cai.com/upload/files/kinuvavomogavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10566970994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/13258186686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ccf363f21---regegizudatorokijijiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/241659557173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bb9d166a3---71683263221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=g+is+an+irrational+number+between+2+and+4PDF link annotation
    • http://janyska.home.pl/_mjanyska2013/fotki/file/widamimupalekojiz.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_off0000ca88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA88 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 0e4c31a0911ad6a41b7e42a532dd5726444319f0ad0caf1ffda05f1dbf954325
font_01_sfnt_off0000e42c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3E 17224 bytes
SHA-256: b15503825b1b422cd2ed6b63e917adf00e08784442a679b85f17cf8404b4361f