Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e53af34b0be530b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-26 12:04:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fa49000b1369454c5be1ddfdef59b8a8 SHA-1: 0bace65c7f679d70440112a93ddca771d4315fb9 SHA-256: e53af34b0be530b31a46a6b8a164f2952da77c210c2bcc6b8104f2fe8ab407b0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=self+acceptance+affirmations PDF link annotation
    • http://terwaarde.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74648805917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b8cf71c6a---80502306031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonsite.nl/phpcmsys/file/guzanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/fesesexomipojewiribof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/496c0a33449c718cd255019dcfe34bd7/28256888290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/kimoravesitatakenumokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b628869a865---56344338763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigercabinetry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dbe7e68a00356114570f48bf4b2207b/14535167405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trinityautorepairs.com/uploads/files/19462841806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/wowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/76245823900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicityokolo.com/file/77476379286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4dd0907d22ec3cc4cecf30e058ec3d28/mafuwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/xekebudirupoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrumbiznesurawicz.pl/userfiles/file/pasiwugebovokiwatakiwuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pet.nfe.go.th/m_site/ckfinder/userfiles//files/95530520355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrieshorst.nl/images/uploads/file/banik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/26756724367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zajazd-broadway.pl/galeria/file/tulosejuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkbroadwin.com/userfiles/tufegitezidesetosetodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6d68b21c0efb30795f95ba01e7fc68f/wiretexizenozozavevenopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/lesumonuxemimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/mimulifonoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/buzagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e76d8d22e---nugik.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_off0000eae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE0 10716 bytes
SHA-256: bfacb4dbc1839962b2aa3dd33b51e4a64beed1975259deb8fa2e0de2cb89dda1
font_01_sfnt_off0001037a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8C 16404 bytes
SHA-256: 022eec93ed973b1ca35bfa09ea2b50b0e24d48303d5e209742994e4a8432719c