Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a530b50e41a3c8a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:13:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d5cc9e20312960109baf4ff522ec8c27 SHA-1: 2017288fa6e05a8982b0e9f293ef66bb90ac6dba SHA-256: a530b50e41a3c8a22b4da848a9c5e175b3abc75ccd539ce5ff289bbd0f015127
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=messenger+lite+apk+2021 PDF link annotation
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belesinatuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omnistopbollards.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lesatemisami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhrian.com/userfiles/files/vutakira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/5305700450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.info/userfiles/file/14654166358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irths.com/upload_files/files/gadusifixifigulofowusig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websteravelandscaping.com/editorData/file/51084774425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emons-verlag.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/kejawuvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hc6999.com/userfiles/files/88382421816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deshdunya.com/blogimage/file/75323611568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed1acc2e4f---vifusunawotajutuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/gutowalemimezuxonuziju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/rusidiwerod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eyela.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/7066221203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://padservhosting.com/userfiles/file/51558615012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e72d2f3d3ee0e8ac4ade9a7a76f23225/38418347889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/md2bp4blu02as12b21pq25kos4/98692302761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derya.afmiletisimajansi.info/resimler/files/manevizumelipufosogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6944214276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/botasupesisukoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/vukoremez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/maxatowofitiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soenen-pneus.com/upload/file/xiziwekimilekan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/jupisebewokiwumumurik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://academiapreprod.riportico.com/userfiles/files/20076840687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izeninfo.net/admin/upload/files/jenagezotizek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41550422995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de07e72d3e---81385879961.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_off0000d86a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD86A 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 2a18e710fc2f76f77ce900ee85150884d85bc9c68f7efa43b56094fbaf0cb018
font_01_sfnt_off0000f11d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF11D 17612 bytes
SHA-256: fd95001f98353f349663605c4d94978aa76a590ee6fe45119811da93d69e1701
font_02_sfnt_off00011eac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1