Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a591d6f0452127c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 07:30:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 50a98fa3f70932246846ff1cf7403100 SHA-1: 07e07a5e0ba7acc4c99bf5656a7831e3043f944c SHA-256: a591d6f0452127c320fe860d1240ced0d940cb66f86306f0a1dc970240c3ffa3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, likely intended to host and distribute further malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for downloading payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diddy+kong+racing+snes+rom PDF link annotation
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081504e29440---wokopimaribewilevaveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae66f6a8645221c9ec2184c79857271d/vonodezaxaranorijamenidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12689acce7345d3dee8e1525b08d570b/zejazewarir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/15520401396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/dezeweboxazopize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/pefobinekute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609835afa8fd3---48373955942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/kamuduborazanudamasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804b24caa47---jufibadanexoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbb07815ab4cae28757d93b51764c366/70531400304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822de70de8c---dirudagepubokofazanexibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/lawojefurolovuguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/janeniwafegef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a8f4e18f2---jibarivuxewovemelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/jesawivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/bifabibis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc2844233f---kukokulavori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/20247926850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/624221215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609712d18cb11---4825660227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bof97cg16cf7du5s0626remmj6/togovesefevijepeveziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/sofifobokurik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d135c2c4a81e9da47444bcf4bfe7a0d/75441281425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9b493cae6---17180682676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6f18eaa4b0---66091571892.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b38c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB38C 14300 bytes
SHA-256: 123eec274c46e03a35048ea5dece70540aca54b1501066a1bc889d0c90f1af70
font_01_sfnt_off0000d715.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD715 10776 bytes
SHA-256: d9135f82424b8c9fda835e45b51eed727150e3eafaefa66b5fd835b128182aa7
font_02_sfnt_off0000efab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAB 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516
font_03_sfnt_off0001052a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1