Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a260dc0d0b5031f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:06:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0c110bc4d3a0e1b49b4812d6ea333645 SHA-1: af208b891d8371e03bddc60b0e2a842ad6ea5779 SHA-256: a260dc0d0b5031f24edfd0b5a4bced75fafafaa6aa387619ad1c13a833681769
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL heuristics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://htddienstverlening.nl/userfiles/file/berijumabudavekaviw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf9fc7c216---rarotuxebepazop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b99f8760ea6efde55526d1d428bdf15/dovep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d29e1a836a3---89731185039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785fb02c452---labasumurifaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/vabuvewasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/27227106578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f8b4ed50b57b9014e5d534e6a119287/16892461595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c19f587b24269f9dec061ef9aa1f8936/morawirabakagukivemobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/gilimodokikoxabobusuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee342dae6a---golunizobiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f30bcbd31117954663c12266475f520c/97136363251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saltokisport.com/uploads/files/21821619473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6baaca801e---fuzusav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22f14e1f14464edd8f183ccbcfb8a246/selowowumufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc7194d884---fufavarininugemato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a17512eb8---nebutipinozulixolofupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607946ce9a0e1---67320990356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f906a9e46262eb6d322b76ca73a15a0/tasagedilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/junejoresiwomuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediedil.eu/userfiles/files/75674347300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04a1b87f085e675fd4db5760a33f88db/29340796823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ade566bdf7---18465999879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsencollege.org/test/fckeditor/file/jijeseliwuxogidawagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9518f5f8a4---seworewamixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gites-les-bardots.com/userfiles/file/wadewada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=gray+and+white+nailsPDF 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_off0000d4e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E5 15928 bytes
SHA-256: e61a21af99934c68a0061815c72ce34e5a433ee8d6fa59c61c71e693dead0f39
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE2E 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 65410c2536972dd53351803bb83d7bc9de81c1610d9dea93a4b419631d5468fc
font_02_sfnt_off000115f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1