Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 501ba0b6a1e5119d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 12:59:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 76558e654305fcccf958eac81bab3b03 SHA-1: 99c52ac75eac2386d7bda277671b2d39f7910ed3 SHA-256: 501ba0b6a1e5119d640e70e3d844083dab24c5bff8375d016c13e4b17c80c00d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF used for initial access via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5969bafce73191888da2a35f1ebe898/73294555142.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/83043343960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/mixalexomote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607583c8f4059---27012457603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pathtojanna.com/userfiles/files/dulupudumuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607593cbe667c---tufiluvir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/gufologufufobuboxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/9653284193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/wipoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/80618113596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085a61085cc4---63637769288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31b9564ee1---61075084918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/pavadixadobek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5ctr0naqtsqord63il20d9kir/31043429853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ff156e4ec732d3ab08c548dff2acd2/96279291416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e5dcd93d0b9d78b28d07c106abf6d23/70894898414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/24370864046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfhs1978reunion.com/clients/56625/File/26606061605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb46a4f08c7---68628165921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4l0vl48uaighh31efj96rt6u4/92714225638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5433e94cdeaf0044bfb2ebd41300d0cb/jarutadigugakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjqzzx.com/uploadfile/file/2021061807463073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/46373077511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb9a0538e463a896a6627911634efdda/75286188092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa47e513a5ce62a2b3b0a4ded8eb8df8/1089088527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=collective+soul+hints+allegations+and+things+left+unsaid+songsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF40 19544 bytes
SHA-256: 007cb223e1c505065d083388301f09a0e5f25c037cbab2bd1f9ad9d4b17b8b15
font_01_sfnt_off000121a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A0 10852 bytes
SHA-256: a2c5b3c355f483c9e1265cf9614d742f3990c0678b520c91f7eaa7a85ad4484b
font_02_sfnt_off00013a77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A77 3776 bytes
SHA-256: 2f5c3668f28caae3d9214d43a2dc31ccc903abe7f9f04b2b5109711ed4e95a94
font_03_sfnt_off000148e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1