Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 389271b15f0d3bcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-08-10 08:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0be64aee988ac666efdb2d7a5e9a0b8f SHA-1: 22b199d99b7eb87ecd9449b838e9ea7820632f73 SHA-256: 389271b15f0d3bcf3dde60c5ab40c5e80e9937a9745449490ec3bd632246d397
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+synonym+for+great PDF link annotation
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a972f128504---nazigerakaraxexabotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v642gafb5iq1vo716rboovibds/mitazumejiposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818fd6c7029---53647211446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/35661911488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089f10a0c16b---53239901628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utv99s7s7f03gdeemf99207t07/46886192576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/85511760403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/resetebubiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahitotfaluovodak.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nofileliwepokagaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0d31c4328---10187531620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://versobrokers.eu/userfiles/files/15574359372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investincarpathians.eu/app/webroot/media/files/rirokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/412b585d7c701e48002cab12e8e25bc5/fefokudofakirawowavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/tofibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/78427938205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e14f42ac712d6e78c1abc7e1dc80834c/wefefamogavezizusoluwo.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_off0000e66c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66C 17140 bytes
SHA-256: d38a3bc2293af22ffb53e19697f269b5c0524c27dfc949bd98b31dfadd3a0f4b
font_01_sfnt_off000112dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012af4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF4 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 3c458928e4680424108c005ceebe304781bfde7e895ccfe620a6d29ce3588407