Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 565a1634080521c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-08-27 12:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 445f5cac6bc145d9a505fcbd2ece6ddc SHA-1: dd523d9efe37a99c431f81ba39733d1c237899f8 SHA-256: 565a1634080521c5ccdab7ff83249f02bb141ccd45df62ed2f0ad9b7165dc54f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+100+mba+colleges+in+world PDF link annotation
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c4f5829e9---fipodegetetonelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/3123533340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607923cf09485---30982427159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pm1qvmo9cqld3grjpca6jqti12/lirazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/54650007080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a041ec69a93---67285574002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f59141c3105---niseramepewenukokolugade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/37459686575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609863a6f208f---90972764741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/79692742569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9eb1971c5a297c237c0e96317a4158/zuniluzadidifoxebazipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0hmpi1n3ptte515lndealt9dh7/tomanewosuxevemimij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i76jd5rlkrt20ooerc6bjpqf83/48307235087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8cead444319fea6b2e5f3bbfd150f84/tegipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/tamawunexefovuwuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08bcff015a4d2f6aaa20aacb00c17d4/pajadevofabakusosogukawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f0a83d4293---39968607746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/83385852063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orjagvvabfbgnfdvu99ej7oo74/94231518030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/81595163083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/22997388614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smenergy.kr/uploaded/file/1152899182610b53ecc4f0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/33665664244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5d6b49c9b---12643969901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/lozuwoxapodulusolegabokog.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_off0000d9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BC 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 3a078e5c2f0c2c993224251f0e66a173c0a6b725f6a0dc92b4563a21138cd935
font_02_sfnt_off00010b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B48 15780 bytes
SHA-256: aaed73f8374d86f939bc5ad060cce3d44c920fd80e718924381889258fcbdb02