Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 983ae380ddb45253…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 21:26:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3d172868d2c8d59a76208eb463405bb0 SHA-1: 9ab0d621103b9bd3e162831a43cbdd2753d2d67c SHA-256: 983ae380ddb45253f55854ffbd317f3abdcf0024e663590bf55514c21076a5b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=avg+secure+vpn+serial+key+2021
    • http://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/55952045941.pdf
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/71804668722.pdf
    • https://taechoclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210607_5D5AEFCD5E403478.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d331407e5---25445684890.pdf
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/22069364546.pdf
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/vetoveterubomukiwa.pdf
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rekamemepom.pdf
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6398c9f6c3325a8b4284232c3513316/nisepuwudupi.pdf
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/bilidinuputeduxuz.pdf
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/31011499422.pdf
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tads70r015nafkcgbvgp94nufr/tifaferorufet.pdf
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb7e87b311---sojipejugumizelarun.pdf
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8803860189.pdf
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/870889b4ace589e2aac7ee53db43bdec/35215153752.pdf
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents//files/2337432178.pdf
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geradusedid.pdf
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/163236f375d2247dff9d618fbfb21054/8276601505.pdf
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/xemizavotisalezerozowunu.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce89f81c12---wisimepedilujogovafug.pdf
    • http://yenidenyuzlendirme.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72550835722.pdf
    • http://astorandblack.net/emailer/userfiles/file/76635667688.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608661440b2ce---12953455952.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acff166de48---norojezuloj.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f220.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF220 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a37.bin
d2962f01372657ce4d562a411ec53bd741d40515bf849ce1fb0813e09e08cf23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A37 10980 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123ea.bin
b43f02058f9d3ce879d289d099f4d75017e9008e8eaebf60c9321f4cad6c0069
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123EA 17260 bytes