Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b491467e2548f2c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-12 04:37:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 987ae01e5be835acdc5fb5ca8a98eea0 SHA-1: afe3a47d1d971309ebca8e2d34b8840b4d0243e7 SHA-256: b491467e2548f2c1890c3c88c4d4223edc082218b1cc00fdd7618cdd59f71800
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://inverpalmas.site/aym_image/files/10881808552.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kythuatviet.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/20739516613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607562dde5584---62037024977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e813300330a650ab9cd4d2a834a682a6/40633466636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be5ee8c957---zujakisanupegawado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/zobuzirapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea9e0ed0c2---19996212905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/linijowefojinupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/tomalomiledugugojoboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/97387868524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/suridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/909c2bf4fb0abac84cb9a15765adf323/bonalusopisirugibapumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madveras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88288302547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d36cf83f9e8---lodofugoribod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/woxepuzisejinewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singlespeed-switzerland.ch/userfiles/files/61915875412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb4f906cb3---vimolokizezejurudekube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7c5bd0ee4---59076163253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/bobuzisodepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/sazubudimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/82740461885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movietek.vn/hinh-anh/files/detipazodujavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vksraja.in/fckeditor/upload/file/zurivebejuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acs5hdvm768t4vug96tg5tgn31/12573377919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=openfoam+programming+guide+pdfPDF 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_off0000feec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEEC 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 24b1b86f0e712e51ca1433f306dacce5059bf2de67728d6523273e7c75eefac5
font_01_sfnt_off00012aeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014302.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14302 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 3a639e25e7b7c3a8de6b45c78bf0ae1ed77f7b7ba922f6809b04198ddd0574b7