Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a066ed8a04183b8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 07:48:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0a0d6baac3a27f8ee9f173cf0ad81d03 SHA-1: 978d8cfc4f6b04a7ea20e9abf2641c8972c39672 SHA-256: a066ed8a04183b8de8f6442188186f3110497fcec0955b923fb5cfbb9fbaa6a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rice+creek+townhomes PDF link annotation
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0bf643235432a25e52b376db897e11d/52362289757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16084f80f1679e---jisisojirijopuwugijoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/nugagubofika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2e849b732---bitoxevasirelobuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfaa944c0e8---vobapopurefufovenadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ec901844fce4cff5a4ef5e4d8972165/73173346248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7ddc286585de8e2ebaf2d85f2db3486/24107825013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/57455153278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/2672293684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mujuerp.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/20210628021512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/52586315891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnrhrg81i39au04kl2gpeh60ke/bowijolubusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3d21181de---2432195441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cc7d53e1fb4a6d1dfae81ea3d2f25e3/25742080989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608962841301f---dopilexidojebuwixabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vatlieutaphu.com/upload/files/22766211538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uu5ihvlnkb89g88ene7uvi7t5k/33005118637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6677e77dc---69639979080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/zazolatelutejurikuzijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a819f2a86392cb83a6fc2c36e25c0206/bokakenarotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copelandreunionla.com/clients/6/66/66f6f3de7053633686652f51c4c00696/File/98420561999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/2259224307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/554medr8i0pce4gndg67t336fb/gazisujuxubatizasiboziwed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/063b37bccd026d4e78b1038e5f8688c6/18144150646.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_off0000e830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE830 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10047 10508 bytes
SHA-256: c869cb9011e1a00c11d61a1f50a62d41f20ad42d17d28e4b28453e1c41272bd2
font_02_sfnt_off00011814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11814 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 4a9ec22fd9a367d732b6f59a3654ebd2384c10d77d2d583d6d59a87123f005b9