Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 527a281b05644d57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-07-21 12:19:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e6dba67f664f2fe950044b9a546885b4 SHA-1: 1d7bc06ecd189c4ca77546da6507bcf1058ff0a0 SHA-256: 527a281b05644d579ab9eb9d14d25a1a9c743aa1f63890b35c091636c0609ed3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. 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 0.9822

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://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826b01ef636---taxinalag.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2sb7hn7grnp2paa5a1pjl7i677/wifexopuluzukumekiwuxiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d4c0b76261---wirazefaluxudadidoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bc82e544b---93838263118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfhs1978reunion.com/clients/56625/File/76924220880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/retowomijemalaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608844f426a6c---mevijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33edd6cbfcbad13bf04426eb6c941939/kotibezixuvojepuvomurazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d33cd8814e---7754969715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saharun.org/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66586535233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/doxatorasepike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607056da281bb---fapobotowasope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/jofunekawobanalizikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopi.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47473711210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/43685390403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi.com/contents//files/23264718406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c39e109373---99563837825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuquiland.com/upload/files/96023477832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jutuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d4ae51f5293f4492837e4fcfc42243b/pifikurewazikoxosukatul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28132213187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce48b2f170b513f3dd986834c46479e/kagirima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e78e4bb274---9918152740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1b0466a542ffc65a713b46dfadfbaf9/ninekuliruzukegunibadaraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c42414ad3f---98071742011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/15886803052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfkado7fgcis12urftakrrcgks/77921625859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=android+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000f9d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000111ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111EA 16508 bytes
SHA-256: 9bef897390f9c77d9f44fed1d5645f9fd31b2c2beff3539505543df779360502
font_02_sfnt_off00013cc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC9 10292 bytes
SHA-256: c51c197b31b77141f5f086c322c9be49879bd3405be206bdb5569814b9918699