Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c475fd9a21286ba0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:29:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7a229c516d4fdbbd99742595d2e293fe SHA-1: d146dc6de108782fe098679b49a06bf72094129b SHA-256: c475fd9a21286ba0178d8e372930753dfcceb2a29b7ebe559eee881c3e25fcf0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of many suspicious URLs strongly indicates a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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 https://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=macmillan+english+2+language+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/zififaxonemoladuledamibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbpfi49kv8s7hhfto2d93jjd8n/8076597676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesurmakina.com/userfiles/file/kivijibawidoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d6716da75e757b35cca1d40586e7bd/80232343167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fs-select.com/images/blog/file/fijenenizasosuximuwokum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becskeicsodajo.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/jufanawegufovarigufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073527477c77---62696523630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/637818ba96a7cc9c0f369fd82d9d17fe/3437498884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700254c3d07---ludalokifuzawilem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8cf4ecd0de2d1937643c841f1c2c264/48668589384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896c22991af---22866815283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.vn/images/ckeditor/files/2074043570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/pobefepobazujivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.it/upload/mixepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.de/userfiles/files/rilisifusasifatabafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc699ef34e---vesuxunezabetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/95881413580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivaco.it/file/54385216149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/957bc44a862aca0fe36bedcf69dec157/bodajizop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/mezelajolukunazinadudote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renesens21.com/ressources/upload/files/25616448518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70539635424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/06/27/file/34132764011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/moladimufutifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082b1cfe9a15---16438714611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/68931512532.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_off0000f5ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FF 11312 bytes
SHA-256: d1aa4cae857fc9fa9a96bb0d7b94c9068b0d6ddd0da076d90a70834d24466f8b
font_01_sfnt_off00010ff7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF7 19060 bytes
SHA-256: 5a97d7a71a4f20ff7d23cace618776c43d2e86941515152ab1b9fbff49df12c8
font_02_sfnt_off00014092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14092 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1