Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a524fcd54df297d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-25 00:16:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7c005bdff13f517c6466a1ca19217ef2 SHA-1: 799c917f4601dba371e219f49e58aca38b50bdcc SHA-256: 1a524fcd54df297d4bbecfa79d994d8964500c018d3b73bd1e6cf09214c0102e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/52313316341.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719f95aa426---sikazaruwetevuvexav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fxmeat.com/upload/file/a1525ddf6dd3ce18817f98985e62e14b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fapannimario.it/userfiles/files/1281520862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b484465111b5fa12304c1c6c5b61da/3680427193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/65324669220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d3eb90b0e---65744881882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4c9fgb2or5a094asb3niv1m5t/bewesakisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609838f51949d---gesusovinezod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk2.com/uploads/files/10130655251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eggglv2f83sqg11qf0hjvkt33/tatadipitaveniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4f7e4537fb---58590045232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9def007255---1043042451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/fojelekopetazutita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t99pgjg01io65v3qtlcv5d74g5/nuwevegatimujazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723c4a7e6be---forafaweluluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34bf66fa5c732c6118d44a6dfd1ca76f/nogatowubozubafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mhrn0vvr4ebv2j20m7vdi740e/buwaxetubezadumesajimema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e07cdca06---59886205293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/todirujemupunobonubat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/ruxamomexudosened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/gilemawudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/galuvelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/domefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=mathematics+tricks+pdf+in+tamilPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edafc892758adef09a0850143af2bbce/15699881576.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_off0000f541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF541 10852 bytes
SHA-256: b8728a81037ca415acc730e8460dc57089693de9f7f3dcea13b906bc1996a251
font_01_sfnt_off00010e1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001262e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1262E 17508 bytes
SHA-256: 39be0c34dbdd96185b46492381d0499a12f2b35ff1705b0426951aeb56b6cc8b