Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 881a24bd6470b3cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:50:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 250eb16c7b8a7d2afca5a7ef956c75ab SHA-1: 8fa570d35145edc813fe10b4479d34445a445c28 SHA-256: 881a24bd6470b3cd89200156a0f939697c57146797dc83ac9202f98477c06a52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external websites, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=taiga+forest+in+india PDF link annotation
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/59789038275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210517181215106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://professional-tuner.at/uploaded/file/bakesuwimuliratan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097cd897ac57---70855392582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40be88586c53e0a5605e3252c1bbe642/vagipawipomitebosijituret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calhi1977.com/clients/879053/File/xitano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gv3rv03sqmdtm2jiojohqknmpj/23821867294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce37a15853303563fb9d0cdd82815c2/61889784769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoptavky.com/is/images/FCKeditor/File/30454484453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/ziwejiximisuxufesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miruyuta96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojiviviretigovurajetefib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b026e2b0e1e---mikere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maplesservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/311135db9c3656561524596a9e2306d3/57263440315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/tekanatibumavinap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkigl9mpa7c0qh70cigecvk2t6/nizediwibirorowisazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57204faa19e0d5ac076e1f77709a1c50/romifuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f508344577---kijadomagitaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09ae0353bb8f9085575eccf30d002185/fedejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c2dd553773---luzebon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b8a34fac9c92b44a7f9d8662e687565/84468267756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinniescustoms.com/userfiles/files/533203234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gw21.ch/uploads/userfiles/file/49269953604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/geram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9be7bc4dc---23416726875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/winibumuzinu.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_off0000e1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E0 16760 bytes
SHA-256: ff22481d0927a42891a66cba32fa2e22ffdb0984894f5c5a8668c5705fe6b3bd
font_01_sfnt_off00010d64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001257b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1257B 10448 bytes
SHA-256: f36b54d96adc1c8038e5558b83fe1aa8dcfae2732209592bfe7ef781f6c4b0d5