Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f053ba1298cc1bb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-08-23 11:01:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 01e77739c72cdb18c48e4340c8e02509 SHA-1: 0e75b71972e6a5435a4353f40396101920ad30a4 SHA-256: f053ba1298cc1bb73802c6d38f432bc783489209aa028e5374e76e45db44299f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this phishing or malware distribution intent. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=language+of+the+body PDF link annotation
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/sefalosigilorutejelojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbwingslynnhaven.com/uploads/files/59076122288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768c0eaad19---rigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/23900078685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc45529ffc---68761052395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47058452168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf547a733c---61310968958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avision-italia.com/userfiles/files/60263901622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c25ae16a80d---13260541984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/163d8a56b594897cc4933aa85eca15c2/90499204485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609248eb394af---povibedutuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210517140701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/bozuxowatax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denge.aero/upload/files/41584918179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/kezilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f58c77bde1cba2fc8542cff6b44ded2/82533394818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clainvest.pl/userfiles/file/39023751695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/93603116359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/3867083413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb0l72iqrrm7d0grn30u6ssujc/43184643559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/86350931429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytekas.com/UserFiles/file/xugeserisufipixixenigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/wuramotikiwawevixidu.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_off0000f3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C09 10536 bytes
SHA-256: a34f7be7adebc08e233266b78c0722c5b4b752f06a7f44cb95adb07f92c1e886
font_02_sfnt_off000123c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C8 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 56a1dd5e9dd57230697e06e0eddbb0b32101a4a797c4d3041f4eeb57121495bd