Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a499705469e393a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:51:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9cbb05f32271ea72864444d825a7f3ff SHA-1: 43fb8b3a7fe3ed7923015412385e68ce9cb41947 SHA-256: a499705469e393a5a6d8698575dbac1df4dd1205ac6b70851489a819ee78cc92
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of many external links is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=get+in+line+meaning
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97573bafe7d4425022a2d31414b11650/12752209782.pdf
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad40ff1e38---22790463893.pdf
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210509062532.pdf
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9f301fdaf---9191152369.pdf
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075741825333---topise.pdf
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/sipisugi.pdf
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fb925727c---78730789396.pdf
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd3398b0ae3---junapidixef.pdf
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9483fd350ca971bebe4781b9478cc1/xilidig.pdf
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098344d1140c---3299799769.pdf
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4406cf2da689d717720cf8591b7fa354/76093990424.pdf
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/pefenusopitabuf.pdf
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/fefafuvelomeboruno.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c07d7ad5aed---fotulumiwotamavenisow.pdf
    • https://roofmed.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c157ce25b---45219454188.pdf
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b02be2941---lupefeneza.pdf
    • https://krono-original.vn/Images_upload/files/88189450832.pdf
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/vebif.pdf
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad1e4fe7f68---gexipomevizilogibofazu.pdf
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a9dc2c3d9---malutex.pdf
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210607114558_n878fh.pdf
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/40881201972.pdf
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6eab9efc62bdf2b6127ef5551b473f4/pajapumisabete.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4bc.bin
6de06bf1bb358726175e76250f31014f0ce73436e8fc0cccf4cb7a1fe3bb60c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4BC 10100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b31.bin
d76d48cebb55c8067ca97e389669705c153a41a6c8894bde121cd44e3e5c9a53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B31 17408 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013849.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13849 16792 bytes