Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1def90bf02ceada3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:02:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2d6c00a489598d2647a2e8813bdd6bd8 SHA-1: 121f6e7dc471d6b26a0ce5e3c3dd3c9ad5095cd0 SHA-256: 1def90bf02ceada34595358436c5a81f0eb057f0012db11dcd4791639125c7d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+powerpoint+to+pdf+with+hyperlinks+mac PDF link annotation
    • https://holcom-wd.com/webroot/img/files/tefatukivanezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b015e7a0a1---norolisaduzekukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/file/femelogafelupon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba310b66071ad8d982403a185acaea1a/kuxenapopate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/badivasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyqueen.it/userfiles/files/baroverogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesciencenetwork.org/uploads/files/65604782736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalcinoni.com/userfiles/files/58008217542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111681e96818---88237623236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161267cc72aa1f---29869087533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be10d1a978e600df2db34d5022f25960/30657267575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humboldthighclassof79.com/clients/1/19/19f040aad945c40a0acbd79abd3dc6cb/File/29456268552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sadex.pl/fck/file/92991976305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/11334227997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/49749166479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/103c57fe2141c937a27385f2136db96b/891336878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d1adcb1902---51048358053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/33796532073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876182c45bc---bofopuwaxarefewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlikefulproductions.com/clients/875850/File/94667852727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fa55ade7b8c17569322d981d34f41b3/1247045989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/nezujuripolewezatawezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vm33hgk41q5kc79bff47ut0sff/zagojirovaririlojiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/93663821649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d7b8d558bd---71479448899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e89a6f747daf69c2360d2b70951e31dc/pinironeti.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_off0000d619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD619 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2B 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 258271efd0e1c9dbc9910e4559c9479dad15c0f41205ee2acf1bd153f1401206
font_02_sfnt_off00011b01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B01 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 2a7fa286167c4e0b1e761c1e2b15281c3514d34341b5a3c221bfd9e887c5e322

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