Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 876db350fdc1f8e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-06-12 22:45:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2aabe02c541e0f9acfe7e3420fb7c7bb SHA-1: 9f31db9185e8aed412c941c55d1246ecd3e51667 SHA-256: 876db350fdc1f8e1b62f33b18b9451d572d9e49f1598f91022c90d37a302670d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a deliberate attempt to obscure the true destination of the links. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall structure and URL patterns strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=star+jalsha+ardhangini PDF link annotation
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4d97aaad1---45620540239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/vitamurebetojav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouebr346etupjit194ivmhdbc9/dilobutovediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/zumusobofajodiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9da826926f241b0f4d08220c7663b615/rubulafolexifobasasutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48b284211a87a436d4a8423008844058/98714375311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0982881fc7---27784559804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5ec3af4d49f00eb031276654b9e5f86/xonitab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darec.sk/files/files/palosemirevisagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k22vmt83guosi0jl5o3e3d84si/86167964683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/29213343125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/9502551589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4uu7s5it5ukjtu7d67pbeshh3/diforerezeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f50b9b151a---ropazonefavizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/gugexebakasuliluzab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD6 5268 bytes
SHA-256: 86fd6bb0cca6aa9c09e089e9106cd0908a5022e738798f3b51fa57c8fe4ee716
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B6 10896 bytes
SHA-256: d404e23ad7aaa2969913d6eeecc9dd043a06c12463c5ce08289c25e6c0931d49