Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0394d88b55beb0c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:34:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 274fc629f3859c7cc1ef6821122b26d8 SHA-1: e0b1f6cf78abb0049cede19b12e7d1cccc5df85f SHA-256: 0394d88b55beb0c5ac8b78873ea2d956b7b5e2fc415feadd632a1bce115c5d44
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or SEO abuse. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure support the classification as a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/84761467688.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kmniphkg3ifp4mdgbf4f1fbker/zujunesodizajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa19c882ae---96400284512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newworldss.com/uploads/file/gipevekinasidepijokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089af975f53b---soniwipezigejax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/najotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inannamsao.com/uploads/files/wonujafagikagiretix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/magelijudufuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/51732231572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/74767458703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/jijusisasafatevorira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a913ca58e5b7edd4df6486d17b8a6ef5/nematedesufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/85965594138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa17dc67d4---kofifojepoxikeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d8ea5a923805830edb2568f7e2e5f97/jefajizudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cafeinca.com/img/public/contenido/file/84886500288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pq1qk1siktihcgfc4ol1s32s32/binemudasukuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97e280a6f94ff3b3a8ed5f0452a822f4/suloxisolidonubedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///wimunamedota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cda26b03c9---32781447164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://collegemahan.ir/basefile/collegemahanir/files/jidumaretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f74a590aec---53229933576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/bejupixopogirivemazemid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3584acaaf4a689af3fd01dd424a277c1/pibumubanotulowosat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=thirty+nine+steps+burlington+books+pdf+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off000109c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C2 11392 bytes
SHA-256: 243351defa6b1a7ffeab08fa6f1f46f39efa5c96d06b3f63b65a337c9d64860c
font_01_sfnt_off000123ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123EC 19028 bytes
SHA-256: 3a8da13e77a768bc2829cbc326dca0c3166cac4c6b5c2474a6af2f371424157d
font_02_sfnt_off00015533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15533 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1