Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1558d990e8f97497…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-08 15:37:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f9f53dec15d887b6037a67f44e5df2f9 SHA-1: ac94f2413ee266194939925276f91e918f2c3e41 SHA-256: 1558d990e8f9749779b3773723040fdec87e41b3be8c27bb9bc3a83f79be0608
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+do+actuarial+scientists+earn+per+month+in+south+africa PDF link annotation
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/ragezuvanel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/8937121754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/sugifumozefuvepar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientu24h.vn/webroot/img/files/milupusawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/gupumeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuttotop.com/userfiles/files/25041795189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba45f45e910---2992235151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5213155b000fbb4a73205d80ee1a3a7/tipifevomejawip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31850024d57e12624089279dfe638995/kixebunawemaduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfe516838c---bujoganavefebudufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/kifibaziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmediahouse.com/admin/uploads/file/74202061259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160957e6dbda69---lotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e561458f1---wavomojeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/rovetetonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d78dd98cb07---lulekelevalonavagepexefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/301501826e3cabd138c2778cb852b099/tepemifonujunone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/5961524059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n-production.com/upload/fckeditor/file/31493953122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/63419765487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/ditatitodorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fier-forjat-valimet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22165219933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd0d77570e---60791993094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printsolutions.ro/uploads/wysiwyg/files/xuzakexalosalenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/86521956507.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_off0000f52f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D41 17252 bytes
SHA-256: 678a6f31b926b2007aa06ef4deaa0f619e2b211b4626246608704f195c45c479
font_02_sfnt_off000139d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139D1 11064 bytes
SHA-256: faef3656fa553d48878cdf65ba1e145512674cfc6341570f408bad74c31ef7b8