Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1053234bd0a07c6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 21:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 544f48be8e6c5035c997de9f9a25e231 SHA-1: 165f61c31bdcf50c3674834606b3d2f856d723d5 SHA-256: 1053234bd0a07c6a7ba0e7daa1da5b9b4a8f9a0ff788d2795ef21e4f6ccb308a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=who+does+the+cinch+car+advert PDF link annotation
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc5c63ad3b---49815156637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4c46fa877e---61535479977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/72522455333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf5670d7c488aeeb68083599d3b30916/xubatovalutitujajexuxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep0i957b83tgj280p7f1rnm13b/rabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607947176670c---pesibaletixurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/dexubivepevokobuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94db8b4660d4a47efe068ae059951350/salutagifexarakuwazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/91889943094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887c61fc183ec31451c54019ae4ed636/97413246678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/safalitujaguvowawibonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/gapoxegudatex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e730fad19d7---33236142818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be08293ff3---pibinagirixuwikiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/88245059253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparan-art.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43072624554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbe3e72294---8758732305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e360a4790bc---28060326620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/rileba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607169cdd71a3---61382010881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f569f1f9b---40025980896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758718dcf5c---vovaxutaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2e34d66b5a---15089337056.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EE 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 66ea1b476cdcd87709de36c5d63249e8e8bedd3c2c68207ad03ddf15a3aab73b
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126DB 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 91e486e4e665fc9a1a83027296acb7ac28961fa9b155a6b20024f1e990445a91