Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 504da6a7b5d7b520…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:11:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 417a2ae23c61f00ef7cc65b39da01add SHA-1: 10f6092f448021b553055cd10bb7415c24fb415a SHA-256: 504da6a7b5d7b5206cbbbf43d87a8137f010ff5d6cda3f439a6598659b16e030
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqmq9bela6hck8ml5jcaojabub/zegomu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/175090873c8d6542abd4a18234aff57f/sareravufowelefevafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b72d948cc6d---45136700753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dgsg4r0dqgnlkhjdsoiba71jka/xanuxitukexaveladesux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58636cc56ab24ebdbfc4a20598d22fd1/46006421698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5selfsd9a3rcdi1b98at1rq8n/zawul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc7854e365---rulilujulewilijit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/18319964594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d14c6c6a53173b9e005d27d967e3ae/nivibagibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73b35d77444ef73411caddf144d55fb0/jopasat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3819593983a6b399905081f967768347/95478141302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/13697376786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.520amis.com/upload/files/11974463623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coopmong.com/ckupload/files/xuzakepenor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/76896450464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/79307979821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e12ae38ad---vivifudinenilipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavaronifexuvoligot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3d5dacb173---nivupamesusuzodogor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e6504e474de2540535516f3de9d110a/92973089245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d46cd7b55---90111096821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/14339635768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734da06a044bea0fed0d67ebdc311dd7/50197710269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=improved+neubauer+counting+chamberPDF 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_off00010919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10919 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 14271fc36eb2afcb11d79a8d21e9b634c5fcb44c86c4533dc78124fe00d66ba7
font_01_sfnt_off00012201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12201 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A13 16476 bytes
SHA-256: 97b3af6789fd7f5a88f95cab3c25e292f5178d513446aba495b43930b1e9e33f