Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b502e14519efabca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:58:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: cd975fa041b022d8688a512e37316a44 SHA-1: a5765d31a8c04b09a55c1f0abeabd27582aa9a72 SHA-256: b502e14519efabcac36bf5c6a5c5f1e6cc0ce212d211e5051300471bc832ea2f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, suggesting an intent to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a pattern of using compromised or disposable hosting for these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/3451383428.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kbjo7e8lo4ua7elbjnf0fegqfg/vexafedamexeridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5323fbad281111bb5cf1cb000c41b8e6/fufosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/614fd5fc8214cf6cede63ceb970c7504/74435962817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a752303e3ae---sozefivixididubadubibeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f9a8e1c33---salofubanekuwujaviraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6c3b793e9---81716792751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0adbfc55ac---13420755475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogalata.it/userfiles/files/62725079225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t89fimu75unupgf0siha7o5r3/12608223574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/76236001488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/defabujemiledas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333240048609d108a8c0b5dbbb88864a/vesiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/loxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e02b9a898bf5c465202c494ee242ca62/74925997788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/29539184351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd0580e429b1a347af93d19409e2745/kogilevanorinisofoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/90637499924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edd579722a---zewipojipegogazepeputik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e7129d846b---25627420182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nuyew.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b523ae5f0bd1cebb4f0ce131a577c760/89628288817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076161baa04c---tutidibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de2343b81f---28422428318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/44837599890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2i2umksgtaa53g0ags8fgnjc7u/wipapukezobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=total+chromosomes+in+human+bodyPDF 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_off000103f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F0 10952 bytes
SHA-256: addd7d5575a30b2061bdf6ff5bdb1d7a6865562b9fe851c6113d1a3d2f48c1cb
font_01_sfnt_off00011d28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D28 16964 bytes
SHA-256: baea0adc98fbec053ec65f2cb562be7189885d2dfe64be4c559708cb2ddf4e28
font_02_sfnt_off0001499d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1499D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1