Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd253749cd89a9d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.6 KB Created: 2021-07-04 05:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a6910e67f65c9fab3f51f37a7c425401 SHA-1: 1a36ca119d1f4413c8c816219616c940e8d4be5b SHA-256: bd253749cd89a9d0827084c86ae734317b2b7f37b0254992770c9510a11e2077
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

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

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9091

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4sb68dravanmsobfbaq29vguot/7787613671.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791a3469b10---62462718977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/rebebarakifajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ei-hotel.com/free_images/files/87436870430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adfebfb0a55---54051718251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905dfdd2563---79050493382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/66072757305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be014d223f---24615655842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f13585ae0a---93381143698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0066513966---visonetekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7c2e73f4e2---37676745272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e47d9f535---5242975361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4452187c73c7e7e258331e34f902622/xurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/225e00f81d5340788bd35c64ad5ed331/faluwakiruse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.come/file/26071767363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6062354c27734b4ca0d846f60d7111cc/47071854865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harasportcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kp14i89h64f059sdbpodd96k7b/88087446318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61b0563934d2cba0a3325308c617eabc/18109785056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c3715cc3b0dc13ff27b25d160a2c3d8/komibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/496e523a10c9ce0523041cd4e4e2cbe6/81298934188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/69891006052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/67669580544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.com/imagenes/file/vonizodifilekabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeiuqgi3jv3t3iuopb5ats46og/domeniwipumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eruao8gauo0jpm50ssb2a6o575/99191651886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920efe87d4b---68495396832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=swiss+franc+banknotesPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00016d3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16D3F 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 94a1632ffe6dd11fab06ad4ac3935ca541220b27a0f6ce8c2a1f40c50da71547
font_01_sfnt_off000185ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x185ED 16840 bytes
SHA-256: dc4ca262c4bf4f7551023328003be1e2573c79bfe4fb3768360c31c4692a76f0
font_02_sfnt_off00019e36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19E36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001b648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B648 22392 bytes
SHA-256: 822e8c8c5639daed5fa6082b52e2c9b00f158f1881e4b822ab4c733a6b7a704d
font_04_sfnt_off0001edf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EDF6 1860 bytes
SHA-256: 562d39cc93351683f3420870a5578826c1285db13c691c08f99be18f4980e560