Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0516db609678ad8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:43:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ed00bff293093d792abe8686a079101e SHA-1: 4f816ad36e6790f75513c4e22cec4e79d616650c SHA-256: a0516db609678ad8520e8dcb040493afc0430748eaff25072662a7467970d404
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests it may be used to facilitate the redirection or exploit vulnerabilities.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+newsroom+pilot+script PDF link annotation
    • https://24emk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38730132936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocommercialedelpiano.it/userfiles/files/30748075127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c3ae6e4021---9577140125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoigolfbinhthuan.com/users/files/13784595491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140758ea530a---28081658663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b998f89d69---69592699243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/radogopojowoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--hjrnskadeakademien-mtb.se/userfiles/file/vopuwositejitiwugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe8a446a63---wawitalubixaxarigafufazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131ac631db58---88690588548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/48999542784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemma.lucien-sv.info/uploads/files/6133293107fdb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opsir.eu/files/file/kozepivinukamosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/62571234259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161472c934d909---gaxosenezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiace-yoshikawa.com/js/upload/files/96912041632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkserwis.pl/userfiles/file/pivibubiwisonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e67e9c059---88359192295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.parinet.fi/tiedostot/files/97433104680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65487319276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/vapobawizidafafewuzefake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolekkoyum.com/admin/UserFiles/file/39184620891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/11658440583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/zefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132090fec9ac---45568358139.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_off0001066c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1066C 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 29da8963327257f0517e0037c78257a918b457a5836ddf28c3751cc694142a95
font_01_sfnt_off00011e42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E42 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013654.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13654 18748 bytes
SHA-256: d4b65917298eefb48231abd15095083a5c125d3125f7a2c07872be6ef6704e37

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