Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00fd5326d4ca3c18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.1 KB Created: 2021-05-02 19:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 70e9e5cd62e80f5f72e8a1bf373b0479 SHA-1: 511bcab445bd7e77914df77f848e8c85faebef58 SHA-256: 00fd5326d4ca3c180cf65412a186f441a476744318804aee3cb159c958675e74
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, indicating a malicious intent to lure users to untrusted sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8377

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02888fd1fe82b66c4adf04b89a0f105f/munusedidelapibipiwiwurik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bab8a175d0---27772493623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ee73b03b2ac9347ea04dbdbe1ba3869/55998345856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpm7fb27ait81sd6im55ucujj4/rawesewodutikenawomuxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6977186ddd312dc4d82324cbfee62c91/xetamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e54150338d---51440804711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mrgjhjvnhj4hp8kabsip2eel2/xamuvuronemonanewinuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f923ed60f4---56867601085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088344c61036---fuminuxuzegedigobenofode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/620a5467c8e1b0aba8dafab9b72129f2/76294557360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da3ac48565---38042475972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7abdcf9e588c6440fac7a16b4804e006/revojalikixoxidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc29c8c44d---38243504320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t18vcdafeetv796o2h6g2fkab4/91385313639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9vqpv1pmoe682jsnn8vhfm81u/70233101315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=chura+liya+song+freePDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8A3 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 3c93d0e53cd06e81a77dde82ff0bfb9ab932cb2819d0ef03532370f6fad1bb67