Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c470f444f72c7ffe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:57:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 29b0239ed2f108046a2007b145504f43 SHA-1: c6351ac1d8c8181163ee5cc4d098c9954572ddd4 SHA-256: c470f444f72c7ffee3ff6149be7e020bf1f70f0da2d405badf0e4232d83e56bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as redirects for phishing or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fcm+django+tutorial PDF link annotation
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/59529767810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df376dadaa---59152015122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://33podarka.ru/pictures/files/19781056640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicminorities.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/96268819346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csam-villepinte.org/uploads/images/file/44787886991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109140257278360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkoplast.rs/files/bemapimuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebakotb.net/userfiles/file/18729703633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410b28bc547---34429372804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulwichtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/3550908513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/dugoxidonojozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazk.info/public_htmluploads/file/2271770664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n3ss.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25044139993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dovolena-jiznicechy.cz/uploads/47124787097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/12095745328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branonperformance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95396029190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debseven.net/UserFiles/File/41991638003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphoviet.com/media/ftp/file/2432991084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trumoi-khutrung.com/upload/files/32370364831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/10416104853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef35301490---sunevesokaribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/68250691907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/zamafufabirew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoorchids.com/image/file/36056623479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12815ecaab7d90daef29149337bf25ac/89235006123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/fulukabetuzuxodapifubojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/suvisufonepifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc28289a0b---mimubijaxifegetuketoduxas.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_off0000bdba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDBA 10620 bytes
SHA-256: e3b42d3cbf292df632aa17993d744de97bcea6968617e0489df80da062b43ae1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000edc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC9 16316 bytes
SHA-256: 1e8b0e3a3abb351551bd6fc1402aab011cd4e50dd4032a006659c0c8b7a386a2