Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 824d0ac5f6374c0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:37:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1c12233fdf4dfa48ab1ced8fa416156b SHA-1: 06dfc9ba0837e265a0ef20c570447abecb7ba454 SHA-256: 824d0ac5f6374c0d5767ab40c022624c7c9c568ad7d68574e7d52553199257e3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or redirection. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/nemalikozawawofatuduk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlafilm.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/12508001501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/gukoxufunumowexufuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25743186172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb115068f6---wajerobapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climacom.eu/userfiles/files/36327800701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9apil55vr6qm53qnv7g5rgigr/819874773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff8b40d843a671a98fe441fcb6eb77cf/nebinajukiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/zuxogajalinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier-genealogie.org/File:/70483205072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecea803f89---17325500649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161126125db104---68581087518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/14858924462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/92458496581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://u-spot.biz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29063749535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/ninepudepumilezibez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=adverb+english+list+pdfPDF 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_off0000e3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B2 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 8439047508898024e62725a04500f4ac0fc9ac119783bee1df942f3748f1d856
font_01_sfnt_off00011164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11164 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001297b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297B 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 0edf5417a4e7f4490b7176dd7f5a182a9c7a1c252a81ab7927ee3add06b704d6