Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a007515b8627616c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:11:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e8d95d050cf548095f5f11b535ad42ab SHA-1: 11a110af077949723486cb5579d0f2906d57f9ef SHA-256: a007515b8627616c0356fb36558916307bdf7aa8095696367c4b759a74c636a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6edb90e8aed324eb3d7392210809f745/kaserupasotog.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413cde69f71---26046962635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/23602430375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/laxonuporifetazibumirujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144ee694e494---79746836907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/28869449861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrolondontees.com/userfiles/file/wenonovokemera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leton.pl/userfiles/file/pukejukoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paulogomeslda.com/userfiles/file/74005614000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stfurnimart.com/file_media/file_image/file/77660749536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/99155744415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83d008b6163240a9dd04e2880c133a84/25901968870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-is.com/userfiles/file/52934611369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clearpatth.com/userfiles/file/dazutomuwowemezizezonus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begili.com/uploads/image/files/22666264013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c49002ad5---8053031941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santamariamikado.com/uploads/files/litoxevogeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongphat.net/upload/files/70479816212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maginsaatmetal.com/resimlerfiles/5680175872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_3632E3B57C7C7AE7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyozenemeryville.com/uploads/files/simotede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363afdccc92---9065811512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sswjeans.com/files/purodadaren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/rupuwadimemukewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fong-cai.com/upload/files/51669598590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tom+and+jerry+movie+202PDF 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_off0000c53f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC53F 10612 bytes
SHA-256: ef9f06678d9fb573b3802f9bb7de3da93b82abc33c3abaf1a3796e08a65d3da9
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD78 18376 bytes
SHA-256: 6531a3957ca7ae301198cd0782b2aaa4e2d1d9b905fcfe8fe362c1d72ac5da9d
font_02_sfnt_off00010d0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1