Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d53fc3621bb60e87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.8 KB Created: 2021-08-11 06:46:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cba07aac3d218a2be973748cd2556456 SHA-1: 4be1624870836cabc00fcaab5deb08862a283be5 SHA-256: d53fc3621bb60e87aa9e3ad212513ecfaf9fcd5865720600a5da973dc5ce14f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm, with many links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=primera+condicion+de+equilibrio+ejercicios+resueltos+faciles PDF link annotation
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b14763bf7---39233704040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb5530e41a8---336171902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17fd7b54c39574a843e4b5c71c286349/dosazonuwedolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vivasaxabomevobifuxukitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/wuxanef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvpkloasi8ecjssnqgvhlr4s21/pirate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/woriruvulili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2807b7db304cb35bd71b4637c98b7540/53252283449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77300035193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/10961027919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ea6591a26---26404246548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/sinoxudebupivomujovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejj3j81o11af2d8h58oq2ba29u/77980796901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhs1965.com/clients/6/6b/6bdd8f708684a1f547efbf97e1630fe5/File/43795792811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44437f0b3a53d041dd508b14167b2e62/xudekosoberuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f1c99b221---kunoxikinevolawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/31727731629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a301a612e0ac32f42fdc81546df8113/liwidaparuvona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimalar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/puxadevitibanutimajerulaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c969686cc2---65948554209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hih3jqpfk695kbhdb9edr2cvh7/demolatewoduwaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/6427718158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reformedgeneration.com/userfiles/file/13142219152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9h71pbk24d65dlit7v06i5nmp0/pupokenipewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873ab40ae03---42222869255.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_off00010b41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B41 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 6742469594cfa5f8cc2a80add2d4c3e5252d89fb6dc1119897444d70a716a81c
font_01_sfnt_off00012507.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12507 19052 bytes
SHA-256: baa488b10716b21cc7353e32c89752fb9762abd9d1c206390f6633e1e3440e60
font_02_sfnt_off000155c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1