Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00402591256c0a9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-26 05:54:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3572cb9e569267472b8960daee87bb87 SHA-1: 35de885674aad176f29e87fe8fd664f00d04965a SHA-256: 00402591256c0a9b972ef29167519df6074141f5710f16ef90572626c6bddbe0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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=how+long+for+perfect+boiled+eggs PDF link annotation
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf404786098---81734276438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/660eb93079c8dbb6bd589594bfe651ae/kopibebikuzekuponin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55773230125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/83188510798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/75300901030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/33361371537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/poviguwitilofatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a31a96252---52749826301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esebtekstil.com/resimler/files/tuwusategubugekira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drisraadentalcenter.com/userfiles/file/kilibonidutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf0787a85c1---14004034313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv0a08iu2nrq0sps2k26d44p1l/bodegizizezojib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/lidipodipas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3b25a36bbb637fce9abcbf3b4f32365/44327389973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhs1980alumni.com/clients/878257/File/mikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab399d09843ff755aa516238ef979fa4/61374986324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/vodasopibivumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/gugedimojuvisudupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szermgrt.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lozawozebek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/967f4638d683eeeb472de91cea3306b0/40007082673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/sabemijudizimozizazujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/89974146273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9v6nd8r37dec4e5s5a31pb448b/manazapenesizilemetiforel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/bewumugotajepilosiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f19305403d---fixejurufuwodupatanug.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_off0000e95b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE95B 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 51668cdcc13a4573fa80baaf81d279ab38284b1a0b5713bb26f4bca484c607f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10218 17804 bytes
SHA-256: b8cd38c68986b0a32b147d0d080deddd3968bbe63a2d785f0da17972c15d2b43
font_02_sfnt_off000130c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1