Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a592e06d9e5578c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:07:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 01a0f37c6c5b879eefa0ba300b648b28 SHA-1: 497da103ccd92cb89909d112f3ad8ba7439b86f1 SHA-256: a592e06d9e5578c624ec40c577b8ba98fd63d7b7db85dd68f0395aa362e29cab
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded JavaScript stream and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=plenty+of+fish+app+android PDF link annotation
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4fa7a7bee---72943265227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/jafujalezodularaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/72514433816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/46637960869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vzglavniki.net/data/file/divaxorojitor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuolascifondocortinadolomiti.it/userfiles/files/pavumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161441f91c4b45---fukumopolewuzafivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upl2ccnmdd6t35cdelgg069r7g/kutixowedizusik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://explosivedevices.ru/media/file/69851928758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/11999036633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://printific.com/images/contentimages/files/42451604386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navoloki.mebel18.com/uploads/files/bemugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hunicorn.hu/userfiles/file/fepiwuzamisik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ad44df22d4a46db19010a1c81542f5/64223697493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbassisiprovince.in/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86349925124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/tojevipiwoninilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146f284181af---76355788910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abriganature.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/xiziviwuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corising.info/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210910124524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/kovarewenigugukimivifegul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dijutoboreza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ingatlanfelugyelet.hu/uploads/file/39206940054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/1467240524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///32999998754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flixgolf.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nutunuxuzebebez.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_off0000db7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7D 17168 bytes
SHA-256: 15f4e8996b1266ae5c20c42c8e7b25ddbc57b8473bfcf1d360b80c2512478f45
font_01_sfnt_off0001085a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1085A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12071 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 9ec6507f89312cba11e7b49e7eee40e1a888ce3cee193f0d6b98b4e41fd8a4d8