Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e499bb6adceb164b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:51:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4019ee44215cbf7fecc616f7731eeec3 SHA-1: a36fb26c58a6533318995c1b606ce51be3dd7b6c SHA-256: e499bb6adceb164b9901131a66f22182948e2b43c7d2eaf18d4cecb4d8067c6b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is used to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=easy+english+bible+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b256433f37a---20989262009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/44323875192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2o4bhk7hpobkd94f30f15u0g3/35505486031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibconsulting.com/contents//files/52121717296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/debulidilewabuzurefakovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af12ef1d10aa5210cdf00bb9194d0915/54312057297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://effektfilm.de/files/file/koxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/fuzovinuvogurubebuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/82522502059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/zixotivadogazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aeceeb9820---98474960616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duz-drustvo.si/uporabnik/file/23154152598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityfate.com/files/files/63416025801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/32895460541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maristaslardero.es/userfiles/file/57912796098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs//files/mejijevojire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac56bdcc10fc63a15d38fb6a00dde933/dulewigiluker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/66405990224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttku4hboed3e2vh1cg98368836/25688650360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicincw.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/fukojarizorefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/417097e75aa0a56bb4263fbc590dc16d/xokil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio-september.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff6783d8a190e5136de274838d6e7af/18085399714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d044cf87491d3f7fa4a9413e42f67d7/76352001214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3a1051f7d6e3715c028445e376d079d/wumasugo.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_off0000db49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB49 17684 bytes
SHA-256: 9cdaab88219fd467663f830040e1d5061a5f71aaea4c16da0ede8fd61009180f
font_01_sfnt_off000108f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F2 11000 bytes
SHA-256: bac65209d8ad4f910c1b1582a1225bbbc4f6dd3f59da02689fd899b2b04d0008
font_02_sfnt_off00012203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12203 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1