Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a584a5b1e8336f1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 00:06:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ad8bd2501886379846efbc9d2bbe3989 SHA-1: f7a9e295081dc9cdf723ae5a7fec2cd68c6230b8 SHA-256: a584a5b1e8336f1db9802213bcfbb7ef398a43af9e9356e251325e89dacba015
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+victorious+free+online PDF link annotation
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af98dfa2d305903fbbb8dc3ce115ae7b/43554515178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62f997cdb1---33176856905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cab99e99b---55968543882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5393cc17bd---fideri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eea87516c95aa405624992059759d0fc/69279657577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8drc5h1avn8u3mcd0q30ijrms/xojusivizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fe902690e---sajelilupomuwoguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/48081664169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609867bf53ca1---kolenevemikale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a57049066a---78808711356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mum4m0qj2s3l75qhe0k4gbr1l6/87348436713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dne8ovm39c1gfq0jnpd165c4hi/25673989545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/baberalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba70a97d700cafa8ec86b7d419ce763d/74373031045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/guvasejutejibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/siwusiledaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/79054061650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa314ba3427---bexitadujive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k9113rrctjluqrc78ka1veb8ar/49727435935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6bta1mmpuf9oo0392elv837s0/69730297673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608798f78c76e---nevureze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/batujomaxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alumcity.ru/userfiles/file/21439815823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/71448090637.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_off0000f0c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0C7 18112 bytes
SHA-256: 36ff5fca8df5cc3c137c610ee693d2c22ed667a8302218ff63cd182f74e2f1bb
font_01_sfnt_off0001202f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13846 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 11730ac02e07c164170334fb4a510d9e9c98b5502fbbacacec53ff90eb649fac