Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 621020930bc5da84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 13:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: ae707e3592a75931d80e753408f9467e SHA-1: 28a8b99e431c8ce3801ea9db2aa8282a4953913c SHA-256: 621020930bc5da849ecb1ed323e9002fae4a035594d2a58209038f1c0a8a425a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=write+passive+sentences+in+simple+past+the+test+write PDF link annotation
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/zodepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a17549d0e3---39345719643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c332d302f3091dfbf7e0f0215defd6f7/pukulegevuvudepuzonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bycongroup.com/UserFiles/file/dukizumemedimimalafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1179fdf65c977d86504800aeee0a00b/vaditatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6026031e5---59010890006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/48508118243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mov6j0ig2m3k0jlh18v3d9r2n/81824443947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210528124908166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1km430pqmdkhbfsdfi5h4me2gn/fulemosofedewewibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10915182bcaaa3739cc437f4ae10fb84/nuwebasitanitoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/tulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0tstmogco79qu9f5dntcdn792q/62454746451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/mupebujewizuwapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasteadmin.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/custom/wysi_uploads/files/jevosubuveposijagowurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35537551489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91b76a8a4---26613602300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e6c346bea8ae56839e47b76709c7467/fofububu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/56192791801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8r0qv0ie3dl7e5j35g3a4ssr6/82276129099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebcc8e88da---33016595336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949d39a0c9a---765515260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21a096be53---bulelilejimuduzepumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/muzatonojek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctgoj53hca0bakrhdftmstg178/datufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/14070131654.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_off0000e563.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE563 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD75 20512 bytes
SHA-256: 88fc65cc08a41b11c499d9eb13a9cb158589c28d4fe1c49f69b2100aa626cda9
font_02_sfnt_off00013080.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13080 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 66e0e6ce21775d5c986aedacc9f28546b219e6caf4ab9f960b800da08b8fb9a4