Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 505c8281ba1fd1aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-08-11 20:26:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 27d225703f3adb3b015b22b0b5bafe21 SHA-1: ba7f732238c66c0b80f040305d2ecfa2db00787f SHA-256: 505c8281ba1fd1aac13ef3ff10a3cc143e1ff7d72f26e88df2270c508b89bd69
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's used to host and distribute malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs indicates a redirection mechanism likely leading to phishing sites or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a5cf04610---93766627091.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/78956740516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/porijavabuvupimatevulanoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2a86354762---11147552728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b5a07392b---nuwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sfeerweter.nl/userfiles/files/zefupusulero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bedc9a64779---69582774087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95739659d7---91254219233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/14163740107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902eb774fa1---lowikekifawitipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/rizoxezaxabulowifixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/865942e73c438685d36c04b52c6b22b9/58356249254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/povorivol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnermind.cz/images/files/moposowujofuromu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/1324406915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad6829c8523---92619790880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/924f507b08d3d5943258d5f2e593a956/lozazosakigum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flexi-cms.com/uploads/file/wazorefuvudugixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883a0456013---15822824085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/24882720842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcbea393d3---wemusejazojopag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d65ff7129eecfb39a39e3791fc0cf77/97737830618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc34b67d12a---19005828606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/61790003853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc99ffeae7342d7dcbbe30d3e31e61a6/31847594893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=unidades+de+presion+sistema+internacional+y+sistema+inglesPDF 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_off00010160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10160 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11977 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 5671778d23a9cdcd13133389a15c620a516ed40974bb003204d3b88361cc37d6
font_02_sfnt_off000132bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132BC 17272 bytes
SHA-256: bb883d431376818bffd97cb4330739116f4060f655dee042b3af1336935ff2c1