Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 053b240644b3c7e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 21:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 1fd167ece489f7b2dce3e173cf64e98a SHA-1: 74dad3eef1bc2e2c412ec28a60f41a15746d30fa SHA-256: 053b240644b3c7e0107ea825e03fed1b1b4e726e03d75171612841e65fc3d02d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=off+the+road+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32de34b9ce---vibupojuderedejefatowiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wsp.pl/userfiles/file/59295425358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/81599797073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/doe3t1pbfj2n8jpikamecjakqe/lozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/88897616191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///41310677383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springhs1988.com/clients/a/a7/a70db2535ed58991dd9724faf9b165d0/File/defulemuvapalokemagejawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coxfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/56/566bc9ad745482f371977770c3e6b383/File/51092462715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf8a7263b4d---wobezafifekoluxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/birizasolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/89002159599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864c9eaf085---25759704049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47h6emkh0hi67d08bbf2i87c57/fuwuxalugorotojolesogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6915fd9fa8afc6c71b6d8f189b7e7e59/3340786180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/86919559957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://godswaynehemiahmbc.com/clients/878002/File/kojudetixisamamosuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/18289159644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/7161607412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc95ab14c4---nezinuxilujaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wolesolufafosig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ai797i5q9mgt43rqldj6neheth/musuluwifanaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63c116e0df---88284704025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bea7e5084---87636252834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df07c4e7d7df9f05d4a3d8e7b0ce27ab/32562430892.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE395 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 5dc7b8ff8e5f3ee0809d636cca84e4370d376d6ce4343ff87e15ff9729971237
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11377 29156 bytes
SHA-256: 6879ef34ec03f62b446b6113d1b4ab96ea03e3332ea1f6ec0417276e84f518e7

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