Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a6325c39a7cd010…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 12:55:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 97dc05117e9922b4eff9b4a8cd6d6cd3 SHA-1: 0063231208e70a7a53e10e9c4374533db3f882a0 SHA-256: 1a6325c39a7cd010d745300dd5fb89b0d061a296c2728e29c584357435a0dd0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. Several URLs point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cities+by+skyscrapers PDF link annotation
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/daxudidunokozetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/pitofuvukukulagazaxezone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec4b9eed63---14014318881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/zivujokafodaboguxadis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787c96b1c1d---85424969190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/mepijudupinudero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slphs66.com/clients/e/e6/e62fa13cff665df70d7481f632b33819/File/53885861957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b41c237b3022ce0b3304d098d8f0c2a/48052374664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073034d7b11f---buzoxolilukarori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/68449454235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/lowibafuxovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/72356815146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83a18bad59a14da0eb6341c1d1070ec2/varok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/267g7f7lqs3g17s71dprhiqkm3/tuwepatikogozopeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://douzonebnf.com/upload/file///wokagegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencerenerji.com/resimler/files/72531466233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdhs77.com/clients/58520/File/famusetijulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/sazulaxobogid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9a63e7734---nafinikofosulidefux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729487d41d9---nakivolidulomobefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa12e5cc402---45341521311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/toxidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/62486350895.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_off0001092f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1092F 17856 bytes
SHA-256: 9e5bf29f06e8b7a0f5170de0b5c8162c409ade347a1e0e151b47690a8631fbba
font_01_sfnt_off00013652.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13652 10476 bytes
SHA-256: c6848c5e23577770d6455548aa382c0406d1be72571d27e9cdcea86aa56f4389
font_02_sfnt_off00014e2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1