Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1324d56b73e46152…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 07:44:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: c154a672d33db65e67023f8166dbb80e SHA-1: 504f1576f7d290425ef76cbd186379ba499d291e SHA-256: 1324d56b73e461526931fab68eac76684fca41183db2899bf2f0aafbefdd870a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and is flagged as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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=solve+the+following+system+by+elimination PDF link annotation
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qq6cd34jb114rk9kkrjal4o6r3/90054026235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/39768417428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/99292333342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/92274435571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/vanegoputinowatumetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb9ld2d51lelkquojll109hd5/47212814303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-11/20210511190113427920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768bb4ca209---bijonafipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/tegawezolepatazatirefaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd33ccd2584---nuvidimujetakamelem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc3c802f563809fa12aeac34ab6844bc/xapadex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3934f860cc---71733044336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/tupekafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21a26421a8822d83a6441fe6bf65ca21/xubiziforosagomuzetisumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073467fbd0ab---vedirugewanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/98174306780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sussvta38l32s7d8jgqsj0vmd4/sagukeritowowijifatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/zatilifoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1beiujke729v5m8j1bc5f73n4/85547300941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/91058753121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/murunukakagobodepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/822c8acae85684f64f6990a9ad8a455d/wanemabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf63f5dcb90---vapifix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d51f8c092f---19555062291.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_off0000e4bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BC 11040 bytes
SHA-256: cf8f0f356e32698c1480524a9fa1aad12dab03c43f5e4c60f1290c77be174c33
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE55 16900 bytes
SHA-256: d40e0d52083efd574617c90c87af51ba81399df8e196b0f7fb02a6ed84aa4a46
font_02_sfnt_off00012a97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1