Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c531d18023d38cd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 21:14:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bfa4105e9ec9efa30a74183424bf7f27 SHA-1: b44dd1a52fd7072dc4e6d3588ea8d2a3fd3adea2 SHA-256: c531d18023d38cd243773c4e7fe22a47889944c3e91ca7f4d2521b38d939e6e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of many external links indicates an attempt to lead the user to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hold+my+hand+book+2+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f770b9c7050---70919930009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3958e561b---18990067049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b53a2908b8---86859552444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2d7e359f6---lenulupatuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e69d8516b---zuvemumulugadaxebageri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cqjolimkj5700hr91gcs6jtil4/xuxaluvakodabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161190db1f206d---68082743346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/41315458162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c119a46038---sotapatesimasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6c5e42adfd---7663561039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/gosoroledib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff164af89b---96937978592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nozogewivetafinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df0d4vboujmo1nlu5sdaibbb4g/sawelidavedowugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826047a1415---durolawawilofofagopolozen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dizozolafizojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e40b21abc98a493ac3b32524136694b6/14053012748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b5400806d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/pexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10b3abcf71e3b9440a02879e599cf522/72499063521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-29/20210629005750724763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62448559f53b2bc5e602aed77bf6f596/totakonulipape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/6701364179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2813aa1de28498a87c254288e86cd4a0/12096861372.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_off0000fdd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000115e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115E8 10632 bytes
SHA-256: ca631fcd08f152eea209f63268e0ab8fe8e9e57fdc0744e953478d590544d3e0
font_02_sfnt_off00012dc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DC5 19340 bytes
SHA-256: 527ac7b5c45c6a04f4ed3345de0ad9fd89b55497be3cb4a11baae5d393dba709