Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 894682639163c6ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-10 14:25:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 5cb60f675faf6170f11feeed3bbbf40c SHA-1: d001f0becad068ab809aa007dd4d861d5a38c94e SHA-256: 894682639163c6cad68fab404e60d661360061d165eb98129f7141831f56c375
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as hosting for further malicious documents. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing second-stage malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+1+nova+legacy+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c6b714a7cb---misalewol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fb1119f9b---lazadebatubisutosawoputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4a6b428e41f3dbdaa0d074ab6414817/97334575121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28a130cce07e3ff8e1075ece6354ee59/zuzalexexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/152b4c661abb0af7cffe17d5e96c1e2c/69789255549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/59446193503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f3be2f71f09e5983bdb0ea7194080a/74256979051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/71873909260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b2092c290---gukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eae8e9ec8d---sogunuranirulojura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4371f45c3ea60770f8128201d21cb415/49583200768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prestigeautobody.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec655e561150b8a2e093ae9581408a6c/vaberufisawadujigujaxebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36748994492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ffb1a333c90e35f4792828943feaf8/sokujonop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/vosotolefemuxozesomavopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944b21ef93b---kisufasajulomitebuworikom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/tofem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e33cea7a5dd94f1000735b019901c66d/sikezejaxekawesevufenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BC 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 9982b669c8b0d1ffbe7582a2aaed643d7674d4c2ac56ee8328970bae3083594f
font_01_sfnt_off00010251.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10251 21456 bytes
SHA-256: 090da7ba943ab882fbcc187c6af80fa3f8f1fc3f41592a80ad8862b1a9988054
font_02_sfnt_off000131b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333