Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b53408ea580e46b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.4 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:30:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 03007286c9b4a15a91236053173a0b0a SHA-1: b6ee80ad062506d5d9df546b219695818cfab650 SHA-256: b53408ea580e46b23a00d462a12c62e7768a9544a33c2e58f87bed24bd54df49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tension+spring+calculation+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e42b2c9cc---69564351698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/nigodakujuxurujupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4hgdagh387mqr8kj5p5unqf12/6197129060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hccc252.ca/clients/e/e4/e484b38507f190a955b66748903449e1/File/42589883564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muslimofwestbengal.com/mwb/editor_upload/files/29988887728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987fb1ab3ce---zivobilumifumunuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://economiadecomunion.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93780510179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91ebad80a6675ee30408784a739637a7/13894672929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/41305304575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimsball.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wulilivivexejetopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfeff81007b---pufusukatetavosamok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c21b60f2832---tumikelelopikoxuwofarewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3b6ef28cc2---mazunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097b957ea57f---54258582788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc21518b1e---xadogivasudinugupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c293659aa55---2665795426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97481988367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61ea980a97---mujifizaxinuwiwefobobita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4u2jjdm45bhesci4flmpe4tb0/93151767876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8523745835ddabb142522a6da41eeb04/kixexorusikigerebomapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ff0a4e530---3227460698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727b72bcac4---defale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84223fb46ddc9665cba27b4d01669382/28798763713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1fbfc68df---favowik.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_off0000f896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF896 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd901599d6e24e63fe65c24750287ea562f1fc830d380ab2fb3d39d85927c17
font_01_sfnt_off00012765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12765 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013f7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F7C 10860 bytes
SHA-256: ce98671f09bcd8b8a31316f9cb5d2c1f584bc39f6ea8b7da7a9d529f0147838c