Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a53180eae6029715…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a65166f6295d38ddd06c5ea9e2bcb06c SHA-1: f7dfbe9ff4207b551fabe07fec9b1ae950d790a3 SHA-256: a53180eae6029715e9616a400b7153993648ac002c381f3254fb956c0ca99a0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple links on potentially compromised or disposable hosting reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6857d5057e98b2f118cf96fd836537a/vulukizelatomu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/55891905426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumakuruvoice.com/tumkurvoice/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91262802977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pr-dienst.ch/file/14451195587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdc2d9b35a8---nepetodologu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zoldlepes.hu/userfiles/file/62064519036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e73521ad84523229967d85ff573ece9c/46097450962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123ab660ce77---87314733622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e095fc88f78---razarigalafiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldazegliotorino.com/userfiles/files/dobejoroziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6631f8ab278ac52fb8d7e665dd84ce30/wedegabitedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b2427c4da---zaxaxoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb720d8cf63---34203360471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/16733652117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/rilibuwajezasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/tevefupul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatnhapkhau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60122989637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/238ec9cb37fc29d696378a8b6bf2183f/bajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/37336720641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5be99994afb1aaf663896acb18c5712a/fipajewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b005c25a1e4---gomogifixiluginuladomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/vukaveliwakomenapivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7eeccc0e0e---97533713557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/71929954937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796b8fb545a---48193563791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=paleoartists+handbook+pdfPDF 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_off0000c3c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3C9 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 6d16c5738d1ad9f872e075c5913e67f403d042381a25f9c4256493167b50cc62
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC72 17328 bytes
SHA-256: c4f1574919a09f9f50bb065583535497eea8eafcd4bdc0d8eda3330c3bf191aa
font_02_sfnt_off000108bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1