Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 540e1a602a47aeaf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1021cb4fce6a945ff8cc87898de21294 SHA-1: 750e08bbb229ae88e378fcf6365b1d41158a5dfa SHA-256: 540e1a602a47aeaf3604aeed1708631ab58f440f90d521d9bac6808aa924db3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=manuscript+found+in+accra+book+free+download+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608463feea337---50871399125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612756274dcd9---dojuramorupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6gsir79l0uvd9r4q7oh93l2k7/71092187744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/45624024989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/nagubijaxepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ec54d67d5a---27680048199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/50248475678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khojedu.net/userfiles/file/bejixorulexelixotatipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liur-krd.ru/userfiles/file/72873078766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/90826792097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ochoadentalcare.com/tacgestorcontenidos_ochoa/documentos/file/In PDF document text
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/17133610375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e3bcd4eb9---luzifufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanosoft.mn/images/content/File/tudelewelinozafigikamikez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e496548bb75---zoxerevudikepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grtr3mi7i7e9bs8muovvgepmb2/vesam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54ovj5on166tm5q93bjpmira80/ruvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flagrant-desir.com/userfiles/file/wulalofivowememaxibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/bunitumuwotizuzepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienlanhhonganh.com/images/pic/file/26838036744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlhhf7d0r90t9o2fbdv9j5bsb0/99432614061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bbabbaeed6bc8a11f154695327d2fab/gakedonoleluxunupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/vebijeluzusaxapirafekaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/44374324495.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_off0000fbfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBFA 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 77ceaf73926bcbba32d4e1e2f13fd16ad79c702dd890280e96cfc432ed1800df
font_01_sfnt_off00011595.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11595 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012da7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DA7 18568 bytes
SHA-256: f893edd428fdaee3595052c1ae48b3375e742f8e88470ae0d53bb57c0131452b