Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 380679ad9b11b5c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 52fd0c0b57b85448a82abf120d760293 SHA-1: bc3b33b71159206cb35ac8d76b58a67a22c6c261 SHA-256: 380679ad9b11b5c577852742ef972a006a9c4a2e760b9a68b9762f0fec018d32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm nature and heuristic firings are sufficient for a high confidence assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comment+fusionner+plusieurs+pdf+en+1 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2c43016e0---21106558641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbf38749eb7---mesuwavej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a63b61290b---12093883451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/76467218706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a483c5f22526ec5e3194e022734116d/muxiwugakugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb378ad4c2---15617608491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a906f705d7a---wazaxezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/lebewunubakuxevanozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jfk2p7shj88gdti6qnla5qrk92/wedivurovaledifetiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63jma58jmqbvmbgd1t881ll594/93546044454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/zuwolofomebijazige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210714_0595A428465B5094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55thocscompany.com/clients/62662/File/xurobosenivakubivuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopexpert.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/41175898435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejiya.com/userfiles/file/fininuwaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcb00e2b299---ruvoduzavakaxonovolegedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/28923877922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3422d1bcf---32288255126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210831_07DCA796A65B93AA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e0e044d838d464410fff3441a4eabe5/26672819723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/62941604039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/luligedonifarofeximem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607021cb6877a---jedenileviv.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_off0000e1e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E1 10680 bytes
SHA-256: d91968a5e9216c35e5120837a273694d67d2d54c999d6b09e0155770338921fc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11275 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 3dda17e40e73751561b41b4570318a29b4a24b983844f73d194bd9b7b144a426