Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 520fbc96af1b947a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.4 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:42:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6800ff02b7dd7edcb30b2f357ae1b2b2 SHA-1: e84793f2308c4e45142f4008a1dc244cf7ec00c6 SHA-256: 520fbc96af1b947a2213f66e4caa94456e96df2fe0110634b73dee442913e0f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate a malicious intent to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609834f39fcef---25700026074.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://savalis.ru/userfiles/file/serubusexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f3c189653---35321125501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/jisobilijezokiveku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speakingaboutnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23210440650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibevf6v1qq8bjimi2hb04iss92/73287566939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qytbearing.com/upfile/file/43332398350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/4062804034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/lunakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kururlaub-ungarn.de/bilder/files/vekajebosinelobuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9b139238c---96808800789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/dutuxoragikejodugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70736a0dc6d96f25192d1f6b88e029ee/44265774017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65c5ec9cbfd14b52f3ceb105529c555a/gavamiletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessingsngo.in/userfiles/files/pilasefatirunazokogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021062413323239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aebc2e63a964245a6219efacc0454ca/15655722294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gonouvellezelande.com/files/zobuvafasabojejafusulifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b5e7eca04c668edaa52cebdd024c46c/wumosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b332ad773c7f0d8e7688a6dfa2bb0cd/31174768392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/kunefusoguzunotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gt3ckdoeol5n6800j2e3pdgn78/84644091757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iemd4oau02s41cggjgvvt7rv75/jijofavedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87337126336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+scarlet+letter+questions+and+answers+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_off0001b606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B606 17428 bytes
SHA-256: 04969908249409ae52b5e9b7823c988a5572c72bd6461e46221d4fdefe9509ca
font_01_sfnt_off0001e26c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E26C 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 5ddd188d5eacb7b05af4418a5dc425a3b6cbc0800c9c3fc21e4d43e743ee604b
font_02_sfnt_off0001fbd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FBD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1