Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 814895ed52635b60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 20:28:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5d5e5c52c3b9582ec6f253be791d2537 SHA-1: bcf2b037be7489dc419069751500d72d6c6b6e1b SHA-256: 814895ed52635b60ae0bd7ac0c7b22db9f1197db2b6c13add0be0bf874a82b31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=subjects+word+search+pro PDF link annotation
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2li0ikg9250krrhffid28nilf/fuzitorusugigeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03767afd61a8c8bd424c85dc8c0addf0/83620743233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppies-4u.com/clients/e/e7/e7f09595da74c05d2059c741134300d2/File/27074862891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161069fef75bf7---3956801013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://r4binsh4h9-att.com/contents/files/74580200789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utopiasacramento.org/clients/0/07/071cdeedc048305be324eb10ab8031d4/File/xurixipane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/tamukelokolumewibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bc8f44b93---lireluvaxadaxavuwalosizid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f749d732d690a0a470437195c8fd275/liwomibamazofajolero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e4ec8fa56---xorowolujazipemilanuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/79655342361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.com/uploads/media/71795712718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdb607f0e3---59400798541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cde85e16eef0065b1be383ee37f2b2c1/bixebetaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saringkarnwood.com/UserFiles/file/49398987840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8d8806d290061a49aea12214bd83f62/dogimifozutivupajuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://applexin.com/ttpsea/files/file/lumopuvufitovoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc4b5b63ba---11762564087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/sigakebopowulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608364c05fd17---62619681830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eb5d3e0ac441c47f2a6db9a1a86a006/noxutukatipawudidawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/wenurolumaniwezofukixis.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e2b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B7 17516 bytes
SHA-256: fed45240c1d6893ed71674ddd664581bc8109e2ac9785e692065aadad3346b91
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF9 19692 bytes
SHA-256: 535b65a941c193622f906382460f3899e627f8bb8600fe118d08b50c184f3ca2
font_02_sfnt_off0001305c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1305C 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 8368c5e3c99924b068265891fec4ff69898b72eee2e98ba494481f581b7ac894
font_03_sfnt_off00014996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14996 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1