Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a685bdbc813018a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:51:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a3d4141c290d7a4921f97e625d02c483 SHA-1: 05d6d987102ce8d4aad04b173c1d08039132b2b4 SHA-256: a685bdbc813018a0a18b11b148de04f9e885f84b5d72c0551642195343f591b3
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 phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest the document's purpose is to lure victims to these external sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comptia+linux%2B+3rd+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab20bc39c7a3abd0e7c20215faafcb5e/49922451462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/76421443646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/98785780826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87824256382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/mofadinepina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaca600993e906a8795aa70eeeab9689/gepixajadejobobutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29a5d88ebbcb7765f14fb864b62e04a7/67490844490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/76721279726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e94e45ce1f---vunarirapodagefopude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a96e8b7cfad---31885804447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608742b2bcf7a---49179498086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16743866176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160993b32bed54---zabivefuganawulokamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ce1ab686b---79787717873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611946a80f115---seweloganavotobewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/76396511385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcbbb810b42255e1384887a88cc7b8cf/82909971211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210623121749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d85903641---garanebitoleduverisadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bede7054375---wapilosofutefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53300c6dea1c186151a2f2cc4b22283d/pibexejesikipukuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biometria.pl/photos_fck/file/juvubafalufomoboxejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/73578232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rrlqloag3cjpb2ijptnnkpjah1/mesuxulutekel.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_off0000e988.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE988 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 9f035103e46c2450f05936d447541ea0a8e78c56e5ad111fcaf6bef55aa62c28
font_01_sfnt_off000102b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B9 18216 bytes
SHA-256: 7311ddc3eb9996bb9fab8a396405c788f2523e5ec280c69ada11b56aae1be0d1
font_02_sfnt_off00013243.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13243 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1