Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 530b1a6a1f4bfcad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-08-27 23:04:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5216a1342b323cafeaf62f6f02ae53db SHA-1: f8fc8bf18fa93e6894d8a6c37d510ba3f7b8f85c SHA-256: 530b1a6a1f4bfcad33122d9ccf5a30c782be076f89c51177481a21f82ee48c3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=divide+questions+with+solutions PDF link annotation
    • https://viessmannboilers.ca/fck_upload/file/rodedavagabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc8b7d5e6291f61c3c1562d6638d9f5f/dogufenisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.barrau-philippe-sedeco.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29796977651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/pufikimot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoaidn.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10120695733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/wisezifojekabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b33d4ebd7---64668425221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianztc.ro/files/file/raxanuvabototuwidesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/lajinoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9765c5f7ce---46466735601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b68e15829---gobejajifakepuruponezopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb9172d457---dajukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/45248470145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/7142237219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379d7c6318e793c13c34a0083efd6fe4/jutusez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/439ba98fca151c435340396a804de5fc/ramatavokojevatapizesoput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/ditaguvaxatubipodexebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/72788698984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b27e65672---kugifuzekufijixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarexufuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ec63508ad5a62c77520b0827f747520/64989040695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28daba414f7a60d65752fa5291d9b4e9/38892735149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb9c285aec---dibukaxidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabbf12897d---36891868355.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_off0000b63f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB63F 15372 bytes
SHA-256: b9d480c54d4f0a752a60f1bed0bad2d77e0346d20f34f270d4d53912057c8d51
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD07 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f51e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51E 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 2b84ad1fb58ed458b42d07378e83b7f75d432697762a9c52fb541972ee3462d7