Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a275d591cc0623ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

273.6 KB Created: 2021-07-13 21:23:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 119a0c2912c52e89c2289be867aa3d54 SHA-1: efd24807e9128e725851c1ed03453089db1fb159 SHA-256: a275d591cc0623ab6068fa4b5bdd8a3ef69eca2188c282410807c3df0d87fb85
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to external websites, with one heuristic specifically flagging a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.3476

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/49621918595.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/wuvurojepamelapusegatade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/jedomerezale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa4d553dac---jonele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bf911b0c57c4e45e00ddee365ebfe8a/7170077428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apollopowersystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/750dce1eb55b06440be2509f1ad86ad1/parez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a6080de673---46863955734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atreve.eu/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/wajojugadogulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamdard.com/hamdard/app/webroot/img/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sazijogulopalajarinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5ba377fef6c6807401892631bb3d727/47616813384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclightingalaska.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd5166a0e470ff56050ccc774e110a9/xemoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojovicsirogojno.com//files/1961356015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818a5c932e8---50588674079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e34f1c60b---gamam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/53805606000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nalodorejuxinoxirapomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad88017c5b409f20da02afb84fd0b1d9/73194206893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a89a663f3cf6dc04b7071883fe44560/4214322775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumetanemajokunexaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/ketivavosesidinajata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cda334a028---65026272501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51ad6241c2b98b8f71990d38dd73709a/xezojokalabukivozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/34938836852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quadocdao.vn/uploads/files/radewajejugesofatiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=when+did+japan+leave+the+league+of+nationsPDF link annotation
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001ad78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AD78 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 46750ffcd97b3e45feb397ab14a08f58bf4f58b37f33f2bc1c4fd707625be132
font_01_sfnt_off0001c6a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C6A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001deb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DEB2 16904 bytes
SHA-256: bc212d4662ec8e2021be3f9d3c7252061b95fd3a761ae8eac5041700cf43b9dc
font_03_sfnt_off00020b22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20B22 238996 bytes
SHA-256: 0437809702d123b09bc3ce3bb240c46d55436c1d34e1ae904bec85afdce95eab