Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 366b60940b0ebbb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-06-09 05:30:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 10a09bc9c1be3de3b159cd41bbd25b7f SHA-1: 2aaa28255b3a4a8bfb3064502d223ffc8434d25f SHA-256: 366b60940b0ebbb369932a1a02a1aa7f39110d78e66de11c92f868a5dfa4addb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hoichoi+mod+apk+new+version', are likely used to redirect users to malicious content, potentially exploiting PDF vulnerabilities or serving as a lure for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hoichoi+mod+apk+new+version PDF link annotation
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebcce6aba389c97547d19859700cf7c0/63266759119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qogcqd2v3fhf3qguft2t93ocf1/45499671802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27a797d768---tepemufuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0b0eb66d2---77844411257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25022048ddc1576c5247e77ced751915/xekuxizopusananuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contactfm.be/userfiles/files/xelevenorevomovaxibiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cnar33hbnsuc37a7laphoarrb/57693211360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6d3b4d3452465366516f975d51480f/23390630173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bf49769e7---73282198007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/54760579829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/fateromekebomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/puxubesato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1bbc3978f---losugunifunatuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1a034316a---xegekawopebumukanegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e09c462dd8---78385546334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c81d9660a9fbe4600ead05a34677be81/24038015388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10418 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 6e7af4ce1ab57e92ebc55edbea7b371ea5da2b76c2ae57af8bbd2b2e6f5e46c0
font_01_sfnt_off0001168f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168F 10756 bytes
SHA-256: eaeb3389d036ea0602a4c75d885a42cf59903e6c0950836004b48e874ed1519e