Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d53516a679e3fdb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-10 02:43:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: f4d1eeb62eeb156c890eebe04124c108 SHA-1: 4a754dac49e5988cd8f7393d7d631b77cfbe9274 SHA-256: d53516a679e3fdb8fe5255bdeea5885c6ed3f18a40e050a16c8cf56fdf35c7e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=soldier+pile+wall+design+example PDF link annotation
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/wedadokobuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbcasc.net/imgs/file/dupudejudaluxoxoxumiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073af0ec607a---sizikuden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ms8e0mcm2hov2rvr4kq27cedij/bisazodizusel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608480e563959---70541762945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/nekatomubovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/kavijilepilenoparez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bac5598e658---28022044468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc119561e32---82333828115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59346151364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d3abaf009---70143830561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12c1e073ae---15307705051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vanbjcgelegv31dvc3ehmdk6go/bamozunovigopekiguwafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tnmbrsu85jto5ridpshtp1lbdg/wesefomopawero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/536b6d3f154ad5c8bf69bc870285e014/talasuzilogidamixaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF791 5544 bytes
SHA-256: a49dc1743f80b73e861eb6adf9dafee72864df4f984556f2f3120a83b5d423a7
font_01_sfnt_off00010a65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A65 10080 bytes
SHA-256: a367c043d6d839cff1d21130650ca6b377c92a9ca4a7beedcf149a8d38f0540f