Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 590921c45fc73a23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 01:41:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 24088e6c78590483e204796b5977976c SHA-1: 8d283cd88237e2b9b78d28de529bd586a8b487d5 SHA-256: 590921c45fc73a235d7817a83470630184adccdaf16109a0d750b41b39ee726f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious link farm designed to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=hydrocarbons+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81fdmmpf4o3lp9ptm5taiod1p1/61005465057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a93cd5d7ce24376079de8dee7721a758/50575741082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdb083df6956eaedb59f31b616965e99/29142844152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77db4df328c626945c7276cadc6115ea/28142427988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c611a1a20---77506060731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf56ba0feb---wufakowurokijagalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/71577474752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamthong-marchph.com/piceditor/file/67086763432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerhouston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d806a6bd35e98180c5bf6324feda6527/94241096867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7ul5o8m9clhrmnn0ivl1jsga6/gikakazewifofepadele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/vituxasigala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096de3e4e038---60469896247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607252bbab189---deliwaporuwiniwaxader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71243863095c8f1067841ab779739fea/39170651762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8rs0mto1qkjs32u6lbupfdhlgo/femazewiluzagiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e46974763---nukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e35322fea84025eb9380d026c1fe697b/robixokemosenezamigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607992054c6e9---12384516574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64486413113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/680ea5c4ab11569d2f39f4036dee990c/10636494222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f875ab9c6---22123576036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd95d397907f73c7aabc176fbc36bfc/84579865531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/tajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1be7faf8ec855359bbb6070018aec911/84454293145.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_off0000d051.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD051 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 52c8f9415e941c8cb86bf5f235ad6e985a91a9904d3ba524ba28913ef94746fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FE 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 7f52cd2d71df6370917ef5e5c57ffdde729581007393c81db3c0cb6101f0346f