Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 516030b7b027d61d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-08-01 00:08:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 6cfdbbc2975f142e4c55f00fa94b1963 SHA-1: 1208ccfc86321f6797999e6921a6e09fd727bfe8 SHA-256: 516030b7b027d61d9eab4436827ff54a9af6353f25b5525019c221e530222cc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The presence of ClamAV detection and a high ML classifier score further supports its malicious nature. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc8d7f4bf5912fea2fb5274cc8ec787f/runojelevapupov.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3e5ea552409e30ed172fbbbaf047edd/67172730987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/wiruvivujufabawutafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085caa715454---videjaritonuwosojizonixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098623f85392---19326548410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24251578360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4m9dauagruidh3df1eeimteu77/49520716300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/70973847199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cda1f2827371461ffac0d7b87ad60c29/vutakepusodures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb9a5c05b1---miledobobokurapezisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d78b6b721a36fb72d550717c1a93b809/juxozimuzazivadexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f61k1mh0jckn985tqogomne964/powiliniwiloridazogizopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081aa594de59---fipapixomebimamenimogus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f98967c85c90f339daaad57ed29b0a2/17162105556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/fowubipuraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/weziso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d4eaa5c7a---bagirisigipovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/bavedigibelunotulol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livinglearningandworking.org/clients/e/e0/e05af8355f71d8da3aa90f500b9284b3/File/rumejepazenenuvexapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071607b22faa---68034740957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/40812814177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/25704107942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16238312541241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southeastern61.com/clients/0/07/0748cf78e2268043913ae7c14e09e996/File/rewevan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+irregular+plural+nouns+worksheet+pdfPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D0 11032 bytes
SHA-256: a2b7364d309ce21a6768fb67ce134a384835256bb36a0d2f0f0b36962b63dad1
font_01_sfnt_off00010340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10340 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B52 17256 bytes
SHA-256: cc791e7cf5c15d3be470176d6b7e454ff99e76e2ec2fbc25dd996b81d1e978f2