Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2530ecf5739ffa8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-07-04 09:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a1111aaaf0bce58bfb42a9e9bd9a84d7 SHA-1: 21f412ac1533c99f5657da75b5826be10eb8e783 SHA-256: 2530ecf5739ffa8cb32ac4248f60911ddd88d5be166cb10417255f43af7043ba
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, leveraging the 'Spearphishing Attachment' technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pinched+muscle+in+neck
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d421fad927167da31e96c8f3be211af7/16048981035.pdf
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/botukixirejisemizasumaz.pdf
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25600f6b8e30fa12bf1ded281e355375/kubudevudewinederaw.pdf
    • http://www.dramayaramendes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706b344b7aa---70758142756.pdf
    • http://blankheich.de/images/uploads/file/nufevo.pdf
    • http://photou.cc//ckfinder/userfiles/files/winumofirelulogoj.pdf
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/31066589712.pdf
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c76c3d5dc25---nosumivodinu.pdf
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1336256660.pdf
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59nkpq0jc6aacq9ao7hm7m0507/geponebikaguli.pdf
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/32319618553.pdf
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5q04pgnct213ihs04u3371d0m2/bapuvuzalakunaromol.pdf
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b56414c00b---13838560288.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/71386555108.pdf
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cd2f466c2---fesibinofivonowokazukaro.pdf
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae107325791---26482757739.pdf
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210517030823.pdf
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog//file/pozifimeb.pdf
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5fa02ac9cf---lowoguvelujo.pdf
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1efdba0f4e8b44b6ac0c8ef4d38579ef/gexome.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c8d52f7f4---36694250946.pdf
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ba16448795---timeminoveri.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef98.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF98 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000107af.bin
257b482e7181db22f2fb27250b5a1bd9d52e50b04097d09868e7bd351e354c8f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AF 10348 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb9.bin
9b074c6bf5bac7a390ae3e8e0d3e042dbbc6a7c39a7e9b885f3005e377ce4e42
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB9 16872 bytes