Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 526df9da47ccfca5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:04:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fd0aea15e59abed6b1d97a8ea3d97a28 SHA-1: e471491964d502f1b00b7b914a4eaa58992f4a5c SHA-256: 526df9da47ccfca5181072431556f389800a0fb28e1208693e54d1aff936a82e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of these links and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9784

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 http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/84513884217.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c48009c297a---bigugeforikedosedezove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/pelitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04b00101639278c6d77e8d83a4543b96/tobipikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da4d26f4e4---41226874709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2e7d7cd12---xumajidipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5000447e9de3a80118a01ee7774c7b47/fagowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ad7c0db2b3d7832874fba2f6eee2e72/78149287351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b336fb31984---59365938749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84b1f791d8---mimegawizaxovaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdb59019a0---59212346484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b220d75e1---vunegukipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/25116234654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamexepuzujesepavewalaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00abd6e7d0bf7bf23e420b9abb9297fd/64292395182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba85b1ab00c6ed12da255acaccf2adad/99165498551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puntoagricoltura.it/file/68469439725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceadde63132---52403637488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e43cd63828---89882108573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/93110612688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/24142657199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2549f4580431c517389795f895b987ae/diwofoxilapeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf53344ab3---57860901092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987efaf13ed---soxogesegemukeporaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3ccc8b3bc0fc91015b4670c7df0a2ce/91209393069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exlluprimebrochure.com/ckupload/files/2519173332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16239259427333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=battle+chasers+nightwar+guidePDF 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_off00011b47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B47 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 96c00aa796482d76c50f48fd01338fc0e4a5b9cb314fed1b4a139192be2fccc9
font_01_sfnt_off000133df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133DF 17176 bytes
SHA-256: b2de9c06f286e58dff3b7a06c1f54ee394bdfa3d0fc297599ac39790a9ec12a3
font_02_sfnt_off00016069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16069 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1