Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a822e9e50aa5929c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

115.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:25:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 276f76f7a84e82bd766841040e0b22ca SHA-1: 5834f68145b08a795c9383bec851a4ce293f56da SHA-256: a822e9e50aa5929c925727705816239ca3e7a93b00d309f1beb6a6ce0f9e81f3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=illuminati+books+pdf
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610acf74e87554815ed89b12ddba3620/18751971478.pdf
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/16049687980.pdf
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce6ebee1e0d---16822406007.pdf
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dncbsdmm47nrgbqfml1fm2641g/rebobilabosugejakubusunoz.pdf
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b1i7937ke0ctrhljhpij441f1/95310486698.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3faa123cff---kamuwijufadegolo.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3f0de231da---ralulilalelonoru.pdf
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160957ebf06fdc---nalataxufokazijoweno.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6ce9db094---97036005865.pdf
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096fd3118aef---93783659205.pdf
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dfde2797a2abc327de813bd09e51d48/89171168864.pdf
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/81950086640.pdf
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/55882758743.pdf
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86cf64c639ba80cf4788cbc8213f068d/kagozunumotebiwejubujij.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c848def560---27180363721.pdf
    • http://etkindenetim.com/resimler/files/97410300747.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000161a2.bin
199ee59c911539f146e9846a23d56f84936823de7c022babcb09374f386d6894
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161A2 17884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00019089.bin
f2ec885b214c569b684692fccebc42574c1aa1f74436740d5173bae90890e482
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19089 10708 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001a8d6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A8D6 16792 bytes