Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 507536180a394d4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-09 23:31:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 67c827a28e3f056d8fe8728582c14d25 SHA-1: 1a608fa5152a35a8a417d2d3aac9b1f49ec21aeb SHA-256: 507536180a394d4fd34f0355ce12ccd062d1404dff427ddcc1ce0ccef32efc0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=calculating+uncertainty+chemistry PDF link annotation
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/374ba5e6031dde8992fcc3bf2ff8fc89/70705983371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/vivajowolewikuxoraxobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc7dfc97d1---3948992042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d5912934c997d3e7b8ee7f969d61fe3/nirulogofavofedikadijolub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87cc24effb748e6e81eb21175d42bbcc/karigilusamojulipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/19138670889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097f4e65e4cb---jazipifenonobefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/28140996779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/57907107135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c290041b350422f4d2dc36002d14817a/91324615800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pg47f9jgcrbpqcpo1cop3766n5/41913570919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709d5b50183---4291382241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedomoretravel.com/files/files/41163994672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/gekireliginor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b619bcff2---12654210186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6df603b3c---73663328661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/ponakesoroziroguxevezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10bd093a52240e183a272e6dfd6ae52a/76910050934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mgej67g9kg8ev2udrtm2bft6s7/1038761252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768a25d424b---61122571798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/jiborivedoxebuxuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5be9c47efc---damafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609954a439d78---xuralulajubaxorolakeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11c427a3069ea41a84550118ba2b32bf/nobiwenowop.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_off0000eade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADE 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 3d7811f206653f6b3d9e193ce422bf4205effdcc311fd201e099cbf864e0f646
font_01_sfnt_off00010398.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10398 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 32f17d6b58b4e2d4dc99f3210da4b95c2ec6f5f2fd4c955d3bfefe0e34212667
font_02_sfnt_off00013115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13115 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1