Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 505be7349b452956…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-25 03:08:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 873f96a4a63e856d180b708edd60c866 SHA-1: 3d301cf71c46ea6ba329d681b257958619167d3b SHA-256: 505be7349b4529567021326727a70e674bf5d3b48f193c62da183f9c548bcfbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this is not a legitimate document. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, likely for SEO manipulation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=football+drills+for+defenders PDF link annotation
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/48642872238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881b4521639---sawaguki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/030752232182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhongzing.com/uploads/files/202108180727202189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30e1f90e027be821255ab25cba02c2d0/827828307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmbri.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/gifonexugiwejaveno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d20c94d9a8---vutuxubufegazibokute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ronaldtan.nl/images/photo/14144395090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/68540158591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82302839554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa4e4ee31e---40383498394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e90889ceff025d55d6af844120b8d9/47353242780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfectsextherapy.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bowurowuzajisovedixaxopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/35775781477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/lufixogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54316409739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g90d2o3c19cd184oeuo7nsfusd/zuded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e22b10fb6ce215f43b91e01ccc6cdda/wekajixazikoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9a64c24762---tadimigite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/53282726180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q57rebukf0m2hdfg7lkd70lhcg/tawuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d099fd4400bee8ac821b5b45dc984c7c/fosiguvowepemifejefiwubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9keeigechclphietppd1fkaat/79753539956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/tetidomeriragemu.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_off0000ea9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9F 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 7982aa311b1f8849b19b46c1952da97af360637c904b8a55a6af7b8bcb5a0dfa
font_01_sfnt_off0001027c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1027C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A8E 17044 bytes
SHA-256: 5298d804f8e113c78cff4574d01ea6ffb6b90bb71c74d1980bbe809f0a2c6917