Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 505b3c391df80026…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-08-26 18:02:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cd7b367b8e00bb7861cf005f1202e0b1 SHA-1: bfa950bdf9178065bb7ee280f9a0d0e769392886 SHA-256: 505b3c391df80026fe8f85dc7b18c0a9eaa6b3b7c9b2582b3cc110dcbe392438
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of external URIs and a 'download button' lure further supports this phishing and potential malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084372d75758---66504875812.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e81def6c86b22a82fa61b79db0a3d85/tigojanamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/54808349343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamscar.eu/userfiles/file/sifesisuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skomi.ru/img/files/file/68739953722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/incp8dl63me6nlhe91eu7gue3k/xevupugabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bititechnika.com/uploads/file/11706197441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pactforfamilies.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45233735834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/79088166203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb2b4d3fc4c---15545500003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoman.cz/data/file/vavasutukaposigesuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dd62dceed---75680338177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/ladurijilinogubaxozesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864fa4b9d1f---kavamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhinflatable.com/upload/file/83520497837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rheinmotel.com/userfiles/file/75979673643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/62159860063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6l9se4ja27ivj7qcpkg19e7lhh/midivafowaxubujorodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e391ca1656---dizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/36975342100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/pitiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.info/contents//files/98127691009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c2041526665---6633642198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd7912096f---nolanezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/30466160090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+speed+most+wanted+pc+download+setupPDF 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_off0000d411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD411 10852 bytes
SHA-256: c287d41befff46fac90d9dadcdf675b735ac8ac50e22fb1f9ba0a41d8bbab3e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10555 16880 bytes
SHA-256: 440528b00a522296cdfaabb869a6cabc92d122366afd81bc87753a040a715473