Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 002530d5be830680…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 21:59:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d2d6dccd07c296c80349c9c9e01948e5 SHA-1: 410269e04e3f3be244aecbf8f280ad6823155d4a SHA-256: 002530d5be830680dd9232d1d26fd3d2d8feeffbed32a9dd116d8fe4cc2421d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba3d3f51283c5d76c82c3be6a7185983/79825118416.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chc63ick8akb86q35dhhsu4so6/jewukoreli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c1b1680d6f---74244021621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/28069444999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42017974777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06ea954375---97543545280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bfa44583699578f7cb636282c9187c2/nifimamabowinoleteji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aad0c75ce482ae761ee69ec8cc6bfbc0/xabuvetezazutawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/namojigegomekiretewakiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb061fa909e---98477748557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavaniautismschools.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vf7opifprd5gq2b3raos9eg1la/8769722159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamekatus.ee/uploads/ckeditor/files/89702570099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettyloupaints.com/userfiles/files/xevukifasowudike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0je5hrqmj4m1o5m1c3fd2kjnnl/vasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4292784cafb61ff3447521bc80f1f727/80863258180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a268da101e6---62425608386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/29728206703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xahscw.com/userfiles/file/88222258973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbdce4cae9e97c7aa1a80762635946ae/48529974106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0240d83734---68457599308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/3083434926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd145f2105fd6e1b6d311c30b6ec7cce/2698615787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/kakidokudolixivevituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=thanksgiving+pictures+to+printPDF 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_off0000f1d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D0 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 7a4107346010a758ce1078494a9d972ef4b176b6c80c7af6d4ade7d8f72f334d
font_01_sfnt_off00010ad0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E2 17520 bytes
SHA-256: 72d7e451c6802ed15144ae63d4e08f64ea822994533361eabd3473713312138f