Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 620498678a9daa3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:11:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8e4b0d05e291c5e898d729fc614e2b13 SHA-1: 24329c3f7b0e9abd9db7d046634d062ec3253ad6 SHA-256: 620498678a9daa3f1f474688369902062c761ad360ad8e73058fb0253cdd96f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, a common tactic for distributing malicious content or phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://louisamerino.com/userfiles/file/pepitaripagefikifor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2830f21d76ebc9789c6aa219ceb3d71/77918036847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apra.pl/files/file/30772976068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/loreboxabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/25191790323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c9644e63a---85949126182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/71886643632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trompis-tondschungel.de/userfiles/file/50532528255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/896e8a2852fa9d4b25d621737a87033d/41065687242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gijuwijadawunegol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pellevah.com/upload/files/84240019011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents/files/bamadepomukapoxewerota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fa65adc4950d0843f518a645a92bee0/mejalegijorujilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruaszarate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33198070624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d5dc449a61---tiduxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachambredechos.com/userfiles/file/86678987069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sharon-barron.com/userfiles/files/vopudesitamunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2335c0a759da9bcdfa45ce55caa41ea9/jatatabarujelewerirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c4c1ceab37---mulukaguvotekowawekoviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultemergingmarkets.cubsindia.com/files/40675053076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26736060956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.c-zentrix.com/ALCC/mail_attachments/multitenant-ws-01/1/1631485420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuxodumuxawibujufasurefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xebolefujojewafojor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=modern+android+icon+pack+apkPDF 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_off0000dd7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD7A 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 078afeb4785be3af0fc451148e0ea0969d725c6b9d7742544c4032ba428ef9df
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A9 19108 bytes
SHA-256: caeb10fc13e109c353f26f315fc877b71ebfa3eb31fd224ed23d4b8d96eaeeac
font_02_sfnt_off0001266d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1266D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1