Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54266c28b9123ac2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:54:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6f1d9a8b62215a22fff50be2de105d28 SHA-1: e77d5185e43226d0d2443be8d11b5830d039a985 SHA-256: 54266c28b9123ac2d7eb570096894b66a8d81e908d6d5e11bcf606171fef3572
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the 'link farm' heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution vector, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=algebra+formula+pdf+for+ssc PDF link annotation
    • http://budka39.ru/files/wejerodopuguvatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/nisudipidepupuzokatuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpiazza.eu/userfiles/files/17674863692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/97226598390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/98891535555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/ganozasofibalelatonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/gekoromutudifabaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drivingschool-brno.cz/files/files/89188004492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apb693pt7vc59c4cjohbfvru81/56154508329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bc7628fda3005f5758b05bffa3e6f96/vewudido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xatubapinevumubopaluda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bk3mgk4kpfnmoo97nm9dmivlvf/wagiwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrobud.net/uploaded/file/57601622122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec0d71ba62---17678944073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fe8514c74---28047711423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k35l9tmlfe7tlesh7fh7lv6lp5/98257805954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlspandoek.nl/userfiles/file/14833726810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldendazzle.com/upload/quangtri/files/lagawewawojipoxolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0478260da9---34864555999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasermedia.cn/userfiles/file/55921541463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/931271f7e32dd89b3e34bb8137a2c711/juzugevejuriwopeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/83485195025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927c8e11e82---puzizopavetalevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0051474b8360a415f916da43ea26b9/wikegaliduwaxupilabekego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b095aeaa2785e62a47395f9415f7364a/18647372554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3237b3c3c4e39c55a96b98f45592830e/35921180522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/42449623644.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_off0000d618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD618 18692 bytes
SHA-256: 7d0f2b77407e9dfe38decc71c1ebc453ad2c5da99884edcf5031f6e1500bcf67
font_01_sfnt_off00010754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10754 10888 bytes
SHA-256: a686c83f3345362ae4e0fe28181ea124cf8a52ea200667539d70944e171489b3
font_02_sfnt_off0001202b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1