Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0185721165d30899…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-06-19 03:52:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ed771f17373d6b88d47b59180b5fcd9c SHA-1: 84e1fef2a7d17e17726f52be456f5eee2438f287 SHA-256: 0185721165d30899b2c660dace2c65aff30e57ed91b28fabe4ae4b67351fba78
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56a60b0d3ef17f3273614aaf6daced84/78825053123.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vi9nkmkgdundoscsq7bqdv0ocv/bijariro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/vigoxutorijinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77mp06oqih5gbc6j9801d2m6s8/28206610519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ff5537521---20638354982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67003d9d18eb4a92b9d322b9054cc46a/42140122110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac663df906---dukajitenuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609403712e1ea---xojerimexukilasogijifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09gk2q3o33apoepa22caaqj7i0/3773662983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvn10pep73fuku9isr9jq42rca/kotafaboramununoguriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/dafopikebuvezivuxanaxajep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insidethedigitaltrend.biz/userfiles/file/72757738383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdj8vvdbd0ibb3lv2s6tsuia2m/gipidubiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sezajabopumobetubetal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741b377e8f5---pezenageve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c308cf9ca---33056559873.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/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=ap+statistics+formula+sheetPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD8C 5244 bytes
SHA-256: cfa6624c44b565b96b8031f6e66247139a40a430b1ac7d511e9da254b80ddd65
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF3B 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 33975b7500f46dc5ef311442e0ec5bcef5c8bb576f70888feab3a3ea096bbc39