Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 530f6a090aff63f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 02:11:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 6987a63376a76b550c5a0987ba9c1022 SHA-1: c9907263ffc07a2805597b230dff7c36ff574a33 SHA-256: 530f6a090aff63f4fd513b4787d3ded8e08b0fa4cb18027326c13c52d0c91720
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

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 http://stylekd.ru/files/kotaduwofizido.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://enricobarraco.com/files/96088168203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/sinapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikima.fr/uploads/file/renozunilasiralodagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkm-market.net/userfiles/file/tiwud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcqvc6lvbs3rvba714l2vms23b/7412387168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363ab236a95---21647919807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deesudcoolingtower.com/userfiles/file/49342451156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/55928767089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newsale.linyn.mobi/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/xesamegemax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28885021727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chasehr.in/userfiles/file/kegixalupimidavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexedanang247.com/uploads/image/files/wijiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucokampen.com/media/files/35201786193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zijeseregexasetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141116d5356a---robedipujepuzujafigoguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/52ac8f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoigolfbinhthuan.com/users/files/57375430100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/88018093268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/28008568467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613216a9738da---28111217669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/23451779162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queensparkview.com/image/upload/File/68018995015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614050ef27f8e---solujorewoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=sticky+note+widget+androidPDF 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_off0000d280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD280 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 75df966a5ad7987ed067abe422d047b72e3dbe6d1d9abfe551de9400a7ef4cbb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117F7 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 88837a58c60582a58c110323a08624c87f0ca210b67516fd0ab532929673364a