Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a386777024cc8ba9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-06-10 15:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 87ab91c0e390113f90a2acacfd6de598 SHA-1: 29e3d7dffab3e09d9aaa566a55528902fe4e2888 SHA-256: a386777024cc8ba9a4cbf60d9593a9dade21bcec9efd5700fcc57465dee69a5c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of malware. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=idm+full+activated+version+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/649e08b5f54876b8dc1b2a3b7d0c3145/sigusikevidepugafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f316e5b43---30945496528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/pinevizujovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/719c865dfe198dea3be44d291d443e4d/daturuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a711ecdc72---25813782948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1249d03c9---gepomorosininag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/45678087697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868db2cd323---vogoludamedizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meta-min.com/files/memiwewemutapewixurawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35q890m1lbfvcprg9qt1kbdgi5/bobaresuzugozelasekiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a109ae064ed---tupigomudawavuviwipixes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/82574516759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dda42663a6---11432953206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec2fbd73b9---76794623516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/75273146730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.ca/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/2919170362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A9 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 2cc0cfef7ec39585a332c06557341059b9cae27982a53ca7977dce8aeff55f28
font_01_sfnt_off00010309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10309 11720 bytes
SHA-256: 6511e0fa5e6954098714c3b24f95b80943e63e87e9997fcb6290d12baf45f333
font_02_sfnt_off00012a68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A68 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e