Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1360de7ed27b5860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:28:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 679cc15f0e7f127cd26ae7900081325d SHA-1: 2ac834ed0b9fbea76155c954b7d2afc4d43f7ddf SHA-256: 1360de7ed27b58608406167dec6115a6f81b64429fce95d7fe82afa73d7986df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sentences+with+the+word+as PDF link annotation
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/44890621468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhie1ctuotv0i6lbbh8hsf56c2/69733927986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d45730cd5---81600478288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baca692166a---78460304305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhighclassof60.com/clients/871169/File/babafotikazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/tisomemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5c12efd04---65715201707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843008ebdd7---80535683553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7885dcd7d9ae1c3fb059dccab17f7638/sitewifulelogibamet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14974720609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/80062225616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076716425218---32367663452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/zoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7139a085bec03b608963bd48a8f6f2ef/50964324445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/fafonedusexovigaparopofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032tauo9kmdas40v088viq65d8/ribipelipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/vopinizimizebiriwazatisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/davagapevagedinumopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39e6d45f5eb373c2f7bdc404fb96cde6/bikej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93fdaaceefa4eb4dfb630da971932f52/26808170637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47768d4c25---63624955986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.comfile/pumunelasidexilufatirozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51552dc93f27e05ceba962be502a3fe3/53091231453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a6c9a6c8c---35849676581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a677f75f34b---54324997223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dde416fec75e9d84a4bf23a6ab1d0430/34301936101.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_off00011841.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11841 10580 bytes
SHA-256: d252436384556f4978cf25549a6487abd89209ffbfbdfcfee024c05b40594264
font_01_sfnt_off00013065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13065 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 5ca718049683d1ab2c5422aa02176d72eb00f1c0ce2f6caf4cfe2910c3c8e019
font_02_sfnt_off00015ae4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1