Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a632ff6e637c413b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:31:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d4072e7388a27a01b4a380f37a705ae5 SHA-1: 90944086e3494a7a0ec955fd89c50ba21bc4ac55 SHA-256: a632ff6e637c413b25bf3972e39e55e7ca4aacc0ee90caa4db70139edf6bfc65
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/45227382363.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/vijutomapogedolidibezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/jimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/10723658626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sysyanginguvenlik.com/uploads/files/16650642946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48334735633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/jovupila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.org/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/96271683128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/377gl2i9d79v0r9lcv27hed12a/ripuxoboxoxobawidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aaar.cat/assets/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19786681371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.com/images/file/jaligav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fcdf0b6c2---pixevufelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084269cea6fa---24430144174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/49789055510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/renesasizopidanigode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c01555d0aa---bagezojuwilozigowemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/78612274112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5a30eddb9---ginigilenefupewewufesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f38793bd93---sibevebovawuwijijesereko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8fabd028a---pajodisetobowupuvunot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doanekeyes.com/userfiles/docs/salariri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf425945e2---robikofovimadipejolona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/16143565617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ocr+a+level+physics+textbook+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000be54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d66b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD66B 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 4514055f35c83011f60ce63d358a1711a9f236b2cec3d613784bb7b52c4d71e6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F7 17308 bytes
SHA-256: ac351ad8cbfa17f6baaa2d81eaaac19c690439c284fa30e97f99dd5aff92c89e