Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e480f61df4004548…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 23:44:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 94891e1f78f5a6daf5f0e8b5ca0f7ecb SHA-1: 9adbcbf5187eeccadd305a126b3934677095aff6 SHA-256: e480f61df400454848cea5c878596b6e96449bc8dc8c5343c1fd2aa0441fd104
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse. The presence of multiple links suggests an attempt to distribute traffic or host malicious content across various domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nice+offline+games+for+android
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54d88bmj8p89pmvs322jn26ihr/46136800423.pdf
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/64041685948.pdf
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908172106122897.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c88729bd24a0a6c057d9e708e50fe138/91710350545.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onjir0jtvu2ob85mft4ru1v4ko/jireboputefikupu.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c0b47f767---nebopatafoxife.pdf
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1631279787.pdf
    • https://inunekocp.jp/mailmagazine/upload/files/73639933593.pdf
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/zefaxutesiwakifimiva.pdf
    • http://p-jtech.com/userData/board/file/sabudajesatanob.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e018d47b59---xikenof.pdf
    • http://oreoltour.ru/sites/default/files/file/82988746907.pdf
    • http://smolninskayahotel.com/userfiles/file/vawufadutazazulomatawujaj.pdf
    • http://sun-tes.ru/files/file/magino.pdf
    • http://lamachine.nl/userfiles/file/ferasenazawez.pdf
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/tibapi.pdf
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/tetabekuvilubudegixojopo.pdf
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/jutexaveberofis.pdf
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/52383875960.pdf
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57581893189.pdf
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/xigomobuxo.pdf
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/22111916674.pdf
    • http://shesob.com/file/files/39200117602.pdf
    • http://www.integra-cr.cz/administrace/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10075347741.pdf
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/96539420650.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_off0000ecf8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001050f.bin
59807ff347fedd93739a608a623eacc03cd30876b701cee276719d7556f13249
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050F 10700 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d54.bin
4f65539ac62cdb2546b9496000182d8b28981ede14839397fd5a48c1bfe45b92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D54 16752 bytes