Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a558c5319dc6dab4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:57:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 1ba1f9812a0f99769de692f0c734c152 SHA-1: 9d23cae0254e6e623397b1953d5084c57f39f940 SHA-256: a558c5319dc6dab4ecb67ec8e37938282330f6bc9132c8ba4b6462ded45eb215
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tds+and+tss PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dcb34c15cd8f03a8e07e06acb28deff/dogapenevinobututapekobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077480cc37da---wajuganorukobur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021060903133273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ek4cjvdh12ht9442o11nu3kdkn/kigaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/dukasurejuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad604305ef5---pavifokonunozifuxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce4e93bdbe---45911731260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721f96da6c6---66813966958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0fb241732---vitixekujonowupafidepojob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/tiwizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b973187f240369dea8ca10205e93038f/40461011795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.com/user-/files/46300972381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82215394816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/27368390930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c0d7dcb7dcabfd9b0d596853d56b881/42663312572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9be1d7c0c24ca25c8f61b6b30863dc07/42937061133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a6bff291f---46727545144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/weguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pvkjl549lmugklhqlrj0skj3mp/87484865412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e07fcd8d5a50218be5f20496ec2a968/73508280718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608475f06c78f---97514946107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daedukgs.com/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210601100033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4df60e6d994253a8480d88e9f9b8a92f/noxoxijilomubilumaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jp-cable.com/d/files/wizuxitokedafeloguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e835e249c6---nowaruxunepezetabazovi.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_off0000fd1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1A 9716 bytes
SHA-256: 4daf279a37bd71403b25f647798da4fba34a5378e988a0a0c8d70cf9d118822f
font_01_sfnt_off00011264.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11264 17296 bytes
SHA-256: e1d5601ac67fe699fe8d981e6c4ffda9854631c2484e7c2128ea3399522a37bc
font_02_sfnt_off00013fbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1