Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d775c366befffe18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 20:12:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 21c3494b6c67e8191364f3ef1f6047bc SHA-1: c56b99492df786af908d950c7cf01cda6e61ba2b SHA-256: d775c366befffe18fd2bb12442cabb94e4b578ecd17b8889c91b745899beaf35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spatching+a+chicken PDF link annotation
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2v7o5fmlaniq482conidasedc/56542118083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3d04ebff1---53401726874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valeneighbors.com/userimages/sekife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapli74.ru/upload_picture/zowexukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93b2fc2931d99b3c2345cf5128101dbf/16292380862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/vuzajakilufevosuxixuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/kizevebikemomiwafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/61096611230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/wipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c84be46b97c53ba30c72309f1a6ad56/lozeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/foxolatavoruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f58fa9369f---wilimujubatalutuwowinome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7484ec604999576e77a4ce6be6b1df1/12004832782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebf7faaf7137dd6676da013cba4fb3a2/nonoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4rpvq0smlep8ja7sq884cafsq/37638399189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1f8e19795---rokulikujurimopita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/luxexoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f8ced8a831fa46b878df02452c9595/wutujefovadapipovot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e6953889f---8489694464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b063e36717---tosibuxawetitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6tspi7sdmeb84ksi7d693mdpmu/kovoberugarutiwezexekajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43555533388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/59521289130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/sagarakuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8iginsmtol4dfitfd15geb9n0/13256716256.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_off0000ed07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED07 17700 bytes
SHA-256: fd18ba641386096aef7d5375f5ecd1e695fe69db0baa01a71d482b4b167f512f
font_01_sfnt_off00011be8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133FF 10384 bytes
SHA-256: ad79d5d21db804fc505bdd0809379213572b5d424e22e8cf38cf594c3d89d615