Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df2554e96c0d2264…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 08:41:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 27693b57fe1f1a6c9e58260ec478fbe0 SHA-1: ed265fea251bb649ef8d4f01a5d17cb3fe7ed7ba SHA-256: df2554e96c0d22645d88c097f558b95bdc28f7c6c41a92f5e501bb0fe1026a92
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tracer+and+widowmaker PDF link annotation
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac353dbb072---gokanikiwufotovavosisol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du6r9h670vmng5ron3lf3pnr92/33486678577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a348d230105---56017721672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a67dd5ee88---41206100169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oiosirgpo81viu6ts53egaoso2/5096490983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021062016562873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibiforstarlight.org/clients/3/3c/3cfcca4e360ca8807b7dd7d6e7cbeae0/File/28093814807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/sizukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/17638884313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aedfde2529e---livoxamojasezifenonux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b9faaf9a5---tuxolojegorenepuxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb63d2f316---dovetupabiduzeruje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9fcbce08ab3b5a1c151abc1b257296f/xolilutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43514516120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db1d3be2a5---nerewonofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/50261945145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/46803071920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/86385237823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a3a6752e3---50572681015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/zupeboliseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7cd6d4bcc2be146d7deedee8269be1d/12361095077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741474c56d8---zinajonomiwasakiruzef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/11830289204.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_off0000fbaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBAF 18072 bytes
SHA-256: 56198dd6da5d2eb7516cb56e42b57f355818885a33a436e68c893ec2fc1f3ef8
font_01_sfnt_off00012af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014309.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14309 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 2cbcaa2374db44705ae4f23551833dcc6090e240116d8a710ef4cef3f76ed6ff