Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 506f2b712877b1c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 13:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a83c00875fbdece17bd7790da68f5bde SHA-1: 7fc0f47b29e909a2e13308ead1c67adf35887d5d SHA-256: 506f2b712877b1c616bf65405a2672361c9f58542189c02a8e712e43e8837c49
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021625819424664.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://servmed.net/userfiles/file/70612282970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df49b0ebf8---18007891168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowprice.com/content/xuploadimages/file/balirebuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamondsnspurs.com/clients/12200/File/wexakenula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmevjgehuo3hok1hufc0et4pvc/regado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab88e6006f1---91209717768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/mavimudejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cungcapthitdetuoi.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/32618793065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23c20c17f1d5efdf920e8e28df92f80/58686654992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa4246203e52c5786c85407a26b3e2f2/32539083389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d757b34b31---feromevaxidolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mastirz.com/userfiles/files/gipapozadojigowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f45e02f5a---15496206873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/robetuxovokirovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhs1973.com/clients/64426/File/zewapikononagunuxomuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38b35hkr061hs37uvj22kkifhe/62236938523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52a91823f218517f633c4ead93196e7a/pitukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8bjjib1tp3k87n7925lqh84e1/75159017317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/35497469031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelateriacool.it/userfiles/files/ruvuzedevebelixukafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baae2aa85ba---97328979282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=complications+after+child+tonsillectomyPDF 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_off0000e829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE829 11028 bytes
SHA-256: e4e9a042459e76332339c11d66819ccd2e13a2827199cedef87c62073b6212ad
font_01_sfnt_off000101ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119BE 16832 bytes
SHA-256: fd08f0c9bbdbee74fa3a0c58cfd2e03ad47c49b9de1ffc09c4e8accd7fbe5114