Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 521a3b693c0692ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-01 18:46:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c18f13ff88313fd403ecea543da5b8d9 SHA-1: 1a2f0176caf7cc6fd06789d1aa0f3069ac2b650b SHA-256: 521a3b693c0692aeb92c6b4b158fa7298102d13ae3d587ae9f66a210a76f0038
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=alemenor+amharic+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igfofkqjrhblnjpjfi3u0eqda3/xajilupajugaboziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents//files/88977323526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf69546ea9---33192963449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/gudawawujamimabejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82889982422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/rumafofavokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728328ea9c3---89563275773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/55910587097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standardamulet.com/files/files/nukegagasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbcea88d6e5cee01fd21d47384b88a1e/welujarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/bojubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d65a2150661---5075935712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/nezilimafiwugujukofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e9f3ab9d4---79755004706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b640a0be949---52733986666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e8e18d522a5c845ff66b984f2572a1d/7672353653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/zugaxakabagozixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30233827965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/dunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/wovopixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perila-vrn.ru/userfiles/file/defirezomawoxusikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/23779267499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41db67c5f2---85191717005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/060f66d68b7cf11c48d5f74c0f459a1f/vinibeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdsgj3ds2124p9k0hq7daq2e41/guwipez.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_off0000f148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF148 18512 bytes
SHA-256: 56e7e46e16194094c3b5d6327faae083e541d20aecbef017ead1ea5dd3bd1c1d
font_01_sfnt_off00012273.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12273 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 99377e7e630d9b7c4dde9f1567991b2874b726181bef5c6a54d35056e59ff712
font_02_sfnt_off00013b46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1