Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 053ec6f94f638b71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 02:21:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: df92f2ea4bf6be44bae3f5c72fed8448 SHA-1: d9596e810dbb3231d13dd402aabe63738dac0c67 SHA-256: 053ec6f94f638b713eccb8a7bd645f13e8f58914714b42d097299830fbdd1e61
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to host malicious files on compromised websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c398629675b78e7b34bb048c92d39feb/devoxofosaju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cropscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/81132939674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/wivutofekarunutapaxosozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c679812aa1---48890284039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710128c88ce---50739745156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/86011584798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0db5e2fa2---rowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/55261500200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/nonubigutoxujusebez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/zujaloxibosabexono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e50070aaf1---jitixolijeririfawima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/sexowijovirebejasonaliki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc010.com/userfiles/file/20210616230409_6xhtps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfca651d48d---mazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3974b11bc3b73f28333b4c63fcfb707a/81308398494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b3nfmvdtaki135024qqbvjat8/81930370791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fa1cc7cef---99473939436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c492c49c6c---dibedawisadijimopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3d3ee822faae30462bc5211aca0c264/22065331904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senhewood.com/d/files/jufedatudinulezakol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b748a472f4fbe9bcf6e287fd3d7aed67/65042704750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+dimensions+in+drawingPDF 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_off0000eb8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8B 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 4db1dedaff913624a32244fa858efc6b12326003c3badc60944d7243c22a5ef7
font_01_sfnt_off00010473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10473 17012 bytes
SHA-256: eaa03ba45bf30bfe76d54edf0623690960fd4a30bc838a709c1174ff0f8043ce
font_02_sfnt_off000130d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1