Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 008d54706588b905…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-26 11:58:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d022b16d9b8decdf39e22972a9b444d2 SHA-1: 05b54e1b8768d0cf93411457407b2f5f57a5733c SHA-256: 008d54706588b9053fdd5c93e45873905116efe5132e637dbf545f3cbfd5e4e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdc0e8629ba76c419c574263d95bc7b9/263370141.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cashcruis.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1714356ab198d3a820e6c2529f51c3ce/91591802718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realestatemiami.com/userfiles/files/surapazedesupepedoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icaalliance.org/filespath/files/20210925180756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himarco.ir/basefile/himarcoir/files/53245632262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlmlaw.com/images/edit_images/file/43607837983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafichesirio.com/userfiles/files/96637560832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents/files/31238368902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbimaugiao.vn/Images_upload/files/gesitulumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/80449134356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ptbnna1k9atiqrclmj47435275/genumaduborubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zochrot.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/radurenukanesukijazukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/baxiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/70239933814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/vilamesenizezafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/xabaripegefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/raweperijeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/79078789986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokturmice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45856164994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/88344032312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=50+shades+of+grey+tamilrockersPDF 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_off0000aaa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAA2 16372 bytes
SHA-256: 468bb23affb37507207854626dbde551613ff72a13da86ad13e28d2df615eb99
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED02 11184 bytes
SHA-256: f33c321dd6f2ca0521a573fab6c27483d6afcf7f6b59c425bc93656b21c52335