Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 158d7697dc42e66c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:17:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a53886de8389116389ab861184314048 SHA-1: 9fdf6db7643dfb314dfd7993c5d2492913438867 SHA-256: 158d7697dc42e66cf53a42195f18a7b92f5ba097b20ca565e65d4edd9daaddf1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9930

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://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782b9a5ac24---dejuvidupakedetebowusena.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46a7467ada019a736b54b55d1c2f9c1b/92279929839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4044b6ce73---51667832479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cac8f00f7bc---xavijefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/12229154679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://capitalsyndic.com/userfiles/file/gobageragupujevixadoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bee77c35e3e---22370963077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb17e24941---gibebaxoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xezarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d133cde8af3db45601423449e79d64c/mupizupidawegikajesasowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/lojisilegosinuleradar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhavalaya.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tozurokejenoriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gplacestracker.com/userfiles/file/45369982035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fb647ca4bf9933d1885e03a9b9078f7/sodakaduxekorisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dighakanchaninternational.com/FCKeditor/file/modituxoterebakudav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/90005868099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/munidugixadamepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49477473329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copab.tn/216mag.svn/uploads/files/43001905814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiemtoanhaiphong.vn/upload/files/61100012464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nensi.si/upload/file/90734332059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0c2e4bba7ddd482d97e8aba478c9388/71940631290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/kavemitedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/53188444978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=acharya+prashant+books+pdf+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB62 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 31bb42a78bfa5a1269995bdde0bbf1e4c2c572b07bd61d745b1e97b6766994db
font_01_sfnt_off000104fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FC 20344 bytes
SHA-256: c07263802b6f50d5c85c9cab17b8352fefe7ff9e3ab7d02d7db315ac86137817
font_02_sfnt_off00013aad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AAD 16144 bytes
SHA-256: a2794e832b191cab2e9f44eeb57154fbcca8cc038880a6b8014900bfc05a8c94
font_03_sfnt_off00015000.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15000 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1