Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5516b9e1fc0dca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 14:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8f12c3e62e4cf63b41297b3420522a83 SHA-1: a01aaed299ffbcde26c83c8777e6f07ba1f42216 SHA-256: d5516b9e1fc0dca45f089188186e3d153784e409bc5f3a9ffec7ddf4d62cecf2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure as a link farm suggests it's designed to redirect users to malicious content hosted on these compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51f63947b1f34f975cd183323f2bd3d6/42550720554.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/7974508837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ribmab4v2gtkv7h0dknhu6kb3/pulitolesizekidag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/67591781645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cb4cc58ec166de323ddbd2458eece1c/99702206075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161217f3011a69---fomovurasevomaguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/lifexotegokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aglogistics-bo.net/userfiles/file/79923333961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexforstarlight.com/clients/4/41/4125d763bdae894b2c088b8c4c0f4705/File/fimujapawelexozogadevit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/40493519524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/xodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/gegegowogoripur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/luxixomisefilefiror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/37269318503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastadimatteo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95536965453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcb25a4a6fb---36645180340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kezoput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/492d098d92efd119c2b86659723fa81d/53124228929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076303d26ff1---51359905917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f75cea7ac2---33893231089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotel.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/temam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4498c09dfbd7c3d16ca57d274eb359dc/meziwexepizoxawekevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlinggreenhsclassof66.com/clients/b/bd/bdf8ab256cd88a603fc2b95a051c5839/File/3085815544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=two+times+in+a+rowPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A3 10272 bytes
SHA-256: ad15a0f571284a682afc425cc12fe27980a29d9bcdb59a0856724bd20c42d37f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D0 18088 bytes
SHA-256: 06cccf56183b8263dc4d90c671ca6da5ac8fc1654c8b078bb50fc88f3010511e

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