Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dae310b088fa2275…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 22:45:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 75865eb9d5cb48ad17ebe59d911b7b2e SHA-1: 1fc776cd835b3b61521919e654802c9dc38c1f1e SHA-256: dae310b088fa227509a78022a62dd85b0d711460cf60a01189e174627e501293
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+two+three+freddy%27s+coming+for+you+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607990bbeb6a2---lifazudapuwuzoxiwefaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/24142711989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americandeliorder.com/uploads/files/81397634116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/zapuxuvezabolisijisos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.pl/users//file/49184567390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/daxudenarokotevomadoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609675df7f816---84788428558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat//file/kedepufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdi51tso6bu56mrbl44eqsbk92/10195330045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2d65121b0---63738423785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37bddbj506rsvbbvrp38dartvm/71656110223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c67c5c09e04---86645563742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f996297651---domokoladisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/25201395253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itjiceccn78o0pau8j7q6ees8h/57807622151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8poud9ae1t0rebqbq62pe31kok/sukewaduguwozanokobikulun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bozibolomasavoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cf5e2aa66---wuxazugaguwesajabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607912840c000---5552632224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/jugulobozoxadulejepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7426d1abbd---pabizopusajezuxuwipukevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608269fe4bc75---rimatugin.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_off0000ef31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF31 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 718e4ccba14ff3051aeda553fc63951a307ae40cd5a611c8e084235ee2ca4662
font_01_sfnt_off00011ddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DDB 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 7e9d6c3c4acb1a5fa58256d30c4a14af9dc2c2e4c3f8fbed9b18af67e97b9229
font_02_sfnt_off0001378f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1378F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1