Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f499beb76f9a6adb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 06:59:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c58873cb743f722e361bf7a22723fe8c SHA-1: 30c14ac285794e1ed3ef89aa2a929b2375912a28 SHA-256: f499beb76f9a6adb8af4cf8da82751cec0287208a2fdf59492df8dd3710aead0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely serve as lures to download further malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites.

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 http://ibshop.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/44854547329.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b82bbfddc03f597323b89275f96738/49753563254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/sejukikekamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e80bd61a7---9573979275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaad0fc6709---vifekikotipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tusenfotingen.nu/anvandarbilder/108/files/6094552972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/76314931748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/60692995338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021652142197664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/zoxavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608196b949e3e---xetibasafesixemisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210522074826_gzdtjo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160b5cbda53472---viwivusasepapevafumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97c73254728e1198374d2554515c1f9e/roziwubafugimuluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/42812556419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f27077623---mupemexufejofiwireto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aggengr.com/uploads/CMS/file/93601982075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/pofoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/rewawevotunurepowixuruda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609460c4562d8---nokubafizobamexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tln659308raag0c0bi19hd5g8/92603608027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/wapikuluburojamub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb62bbe6ef---niviwikisobigota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=best+ground+beef+for+burgersPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000f5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A9 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 74f06127defdee6b3ce9b0517959b2b7ae68edfc76b164058b395bfc40eecb22
font_01_sfnt_off00010d98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D98 17376 bytes
SHA-256: 3450ec8f6bb37ef48612d4b394435adf727310a822631a2038fb65ee829fac92
font_02_sfnt_off00013b2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1