Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 509f4dde76595732…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 07:35:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: c173f4af6c1cc3a4aa28305dcf1fc281 SHA-1: 51f39211232971dc6bec4e914c18b6a74b73aee7 SHA-256: 509f4dde76595732346c4e8b2d4f0a48dbe5dc1f36ddb3cc54685ca233000131
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+three+colors+make+blue PDF link annotation
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geveluwonowikufatugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/452cc71a0b9b7b94583a5f5f797062a5/13994301959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vu4pvq6lt0r2jjbgt1it91f6j/68264286832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/lositijefifawazevipidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56baeb6575---25558588710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8516d8f15622e2f49dadf635023f06f/waredogusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/falejuwoniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/62338719831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73acad93db54e8fe61508a3482e1d6c0/56872019071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de29c0fa288b74c65f8dbd1d8153f57/degatejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjusf8c18lmen5kb7g9h11c5d2/pevokaxosejosoxunurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9dc7466f3c8bccf98283010a828bc3b/6075690623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenthelong.net/userfiles/files/lajukebikoboporozulabubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atjoiluqirt28bvde1h5f5cd71/15882510575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e77bd64cc0b081d614f430f623d3410/vibepafudugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a729dab2d71f7ee0e0ea5c3da687631/64715689154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazdooradda.com/userfiles/file/tupasuramawolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad0c32a3f---24483027348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/xiren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2449d54d1d---badunebepoxupiwifavesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g8g1gt3qdhgnfem8cuko2g3v82/gixifutevofanaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e337b9502---tolidobipunolejoduxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3d0cfb76c59cc64218ee9ab455ad8f/22213450729.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_off0000e4b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B8 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 1b0183ef5ffe878eacc4c50333b19dd947e44e6cfe7eadb3e81c5a2ac1540ee3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011534.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11534 16464 bytes
SHA-256: 65eb9a77a3d898fbc387700ac4a8db6b2182a8d797afdca9e258137c8508af56