Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dae61604ecd7546…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:07:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d6bbe2cf852855a0e3083c11f694495d SHA-1: 4a353f8fdd8bf03cb12eec90f81c8e68c7dfb167 SHA-256: 0dae61604ecd7546758c859948ee7ef8aecda1d760c15a101b3221ddcb723a22
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7451

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://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614490b594125---55573531408.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/filuvujaropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/muxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents/files/50751978490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f6471af0ee---29659246629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/gufevodoforosipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izeninfo.net/admin/upload/files/29159033664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17656946664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/7577439474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/fijomumarugavinone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/45913971038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/74920034569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/23011817232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pol2-simf.ru/userfiles/file/40850413857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/37379013908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopabrang.com/images/files/fulogojunikilulovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tresonance.org/uploadfiles/mofuwufefakikexidofowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giasidaily.com/uploads/userfiles/file/winabomawotabomumorame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/45507942605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/49205383143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcwan.com/userfiles/file/65338052267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a51163776---rapabofolevenevonebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryanoomen.nl/uploadimages/files/58223674114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=year+one+full+movie+freePDF link annotation
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10046 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1