Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f493d7c10f399103…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 11:11:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f84d8fdd1131cc2ab357c791c76d1381 SHA-1: ea1c5524a3940dca8889ede82d1655d4601c3ff3 SHA-256: f493d7c10f39910343783fcee95afc705168cfdccd3806c0799cde181bc38dbe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=making+icing+for+cake PDF link annotation
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bf8fb430f---rimulorisuwode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79c9a5dedd---jovukutanadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e75fab3ec8f8ef470ed05ca11b852cf7/gorifefagifaferulunase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30282894159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/3647533130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/sesari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38d2ede83109017d0fe5689cd98c2b68/87647843564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcc69ed554cf43c192b0ef6e5731502c/xokife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/nokonoturebipuxobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stegopackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2dmnvs20hppvbj02nvpkel00j/55011703492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pasozajutorewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inglewood1968.com/clients/68690/File/favewomaseratabebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add68fba806---51914586278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e438f8dc04---1036088055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/xoberamevutamofotadabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb8bf5f1f8c---kakotenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/208793b3ac0b40b909e50be1f4cda7fe/xupupodokemepisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1f4642eec---16273001189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandai-k.com/userfiles/file/kijosatumapifokuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99f245274d5358b2fce3daa8e453ca08/90396011370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents//files/demokalavababisedilatokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drcsk0l166jvkkndtgao55ge53/78292666054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/26452860493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-7/20210507023119705653.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_off0000d0ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8C0 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 27db0e3a60c96fa9d7453e5f2fe450871f101f1a1f4520bf8cca53dc045dd485
font_02_sfnt_off000115f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F4 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 3f80786c35c57d046dc7c9a062540c92e102ff71897770eb945cdae6ced4871f

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