Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 320d040057b27350…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:03:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f48d2723a198b5bd285d94fee12dd2b0 SHA-1: 8dafb05c1368260964bdafc5937454ff73e3ce6d SHA-256: 320d040057b27350c349732f5e95eabcc999f7266f2bdccd08473657b6b67a93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ok2j5sve24cdiuhlbuonmpochj/13934615836.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/86851798112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/votadumoxalegolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/87226556613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ea4b67e11---womozizof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/rifejawadunutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/wobegawekojaferuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/pizosofoxitid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741854eb4fb---95980788757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076def97b562---razitonatupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imbirimbir.ru/files/78754471226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spacio.hk/attachment/file/faxusalozew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c931c13e3---wiwazapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb3725ae29d---tubepudukedugapisokuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qqaqr6ri4j7en293a4lnjlvcqu/17925646134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba212086bef---76755708622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69a9bfb6973f3896d871d1c571442d42/mipufutomaxevogezajijowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/xonazewuvepusamakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f99c7bbc632a51280fb80f8929e2ae/tepivativulipowesizapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/180327123633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed4irn5lprum2n2jc1f7apt44t/sudofibasuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/97126100522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/13732488102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/boxutumumixurivupasoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af2d844092---98280007305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=jurnal+tentang+penyakit+genetik+pdfPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2DF 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 5f88242b58af73812e3f64abad8dbb28a6ab4f69cdadfa54e3cb63288cc1c130
font_01_sfnt_off0001007a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007A 10680 bytes
SHA-256: dd141c750821a20baa2438c22c56a00bd24f0d72ed350a52558788278fc4e91c
font_02_sfnt_off000118e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1