Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a833f2a4a263ff8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:54:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9541dc7c3f150c8b631b409d3ba47ee4 SHA-1: 8244678585075a9a97ae517be52887bd93d9c2cc SHA-256: a833f2a4a263ff8c6c92e6249713b509058807a2c99608ebf89284008d0ff3a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d58f701e1fb62eab8d321418ec60322/20817377559.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://redondoclassicburger.com/uploads/files/rosorolanipilutome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eszixv.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53135779216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/514eec45b874285c02ff07555cff2549/vepoketigevuwidekub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oec4bqp7904s3p4vche9e9kai0/tivarela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1d1d4b123151ca53d58b02446728ea/49753567401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd28b57d10c3ae52781423e0499b1e3d/rujuluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scsi.coop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8d312abb12a918eb44cb53331df25fd/viralowajakozobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a6a14473c---seminipikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roarmysecurity.ro/mm/file/73613078604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-klass.ru/i/upload/files/41094147793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukhayurveda.in/userfiles/file/52729201304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a054b945525---38866320827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/nejosisedik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospel-pour-100-voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/babigivodananarukoketove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/98304289765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a5productions.com/home/a5pro/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanetelawenotofubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiemtoanhaiphong.vn/upload/files/25662764679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/nujomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/nubegefisinotatakutol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogoxuavanay.vn/uploads/files/savevabijikanazurazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70625e39d63060d4ce0634c445c4e1c5/77696613735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67b5aadd8b---95650282036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/79930452867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/atrrqgbs1mc8oa2ernhnaueqmh/50614020424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=xps+15+spec+sheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000e06c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE06C 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 32c731e423defb99668b846e728e96856e8ce876a4cb7858876b7f19735f8248
font_01_sfnt_off00010ee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE5 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 0de8d51e0025a88bb480f6fd4a15f22c426c5eccad09a3922159b36dd9d7d97d
font_02_sfnt_off00012649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12649 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1