Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e502cd4887d30512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:24:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3cc173936af7a499d20a365f9ad54e16 SHA-1: 52efb33165982a928d938501cca59495bbe74465 SHA-256: e502cd4887d305122402c7f2f4abd0e80560285d7b0ba2708776b4be6a697081
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely used to distribute phishing content or further malware payloads to unsuspecting users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=boiled+egg+and+bacon+sandwich PDF link annotation
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/56875098041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/716aa618b0262a0ac6fa5e439471e4cc/2682257783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0bfc2a301---13868713325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg9orlb3t8j9mcb6qihocur0v1/1389372185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebelhotel.ru/userfiles/files/xawamokoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb1c520411---xeruwuwofumowiwuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f8ae1c854---37675282017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/56625622913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716a60b38f1---53854253615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/57276692636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/rezafaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f19ca434a5---10428196745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/25114031199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4352d303f639e10f002e6e15f87c313d/tudogisipularanaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/takeo74aau73vopl5tn9c9uul8/basometokelagalazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/18105934640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/xaxozejixinuxutiguwaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bd204ebfa---vazezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehsclassof64.com/clients/b/bf/bfa5c4411462ceee4a19e543862d902c/File/1868337309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d9e407f334---fofesitufuxasilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guinyardfamilyreunion.com/clients/62985/File/71156172072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0c29b392c---71683551549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2ac2d991cf4f4e8bb636568830ca347/zuzotubofifoxijemotilol.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_off0000f28c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28C 17324 bytes
SHA-256: acec0a4e982f4e8c914272230ce12cfb45a21ef6d5debb37ffaeab826e09bb0a
font_01_sfnt_off00011fba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBA 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 979718e74c5ef503a6a4746a5aa31081deaae090eae2be83cdd3bea52c72c296
font_02_sfnt_off00013822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13822 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1