Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd0086ed6cacd0b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-06-17 10:21:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f1726c6cb27564282b25f66ad1385ec1 SHA-1: 7f8262cf166b109820146c32a22f9d87b15f1135 SHA-256: fd0086ed6cacd0b86834612871130226b83ee020314428760d6ec650515f1c74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, aiming to deceive users. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs suggests a redirection mechanism for malicious content delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=allama+zeeshan+haider+jawadi+quran+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://sparkpro.lv/content/file/ganipakisafalulavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e76c6e6b7ea791eb44af878fc64b65e8/patuzavenezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae503880ad2---mugerorita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806edbb0a4b---badojanalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc10f53ad35---wepasanefafuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607593e6aa698---wokagobesosezowefako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079893059d94---webarimotumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9b9bee7e0d042900006f5507d23ff01/tabojagukifapunuguxiwogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/powijofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987e4be01a3---kopuwegesilewemafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/24759096695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04a6404cb2---duxetodumomutubulesupewij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/76449074260a2dfb5bd22e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hansenlight.com/UploadFile/files/34243502539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f302fa49b61a2c7f3c815cd1beb23d/zuwasonibiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dd99555a94---60527844148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00010077.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x10077 20132 bytes
SHA-256: a8480995e654df990d8a0d0c62bec5626c4f1588b949b2827c34b77c96471db2
font_00_sfnt_off0000cb88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB88 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 8bd324dfce54b3a0ad86ce553456fdeba0297a1d6350ebab00ffd0fc4359a3cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD6E 10244 bytes
SHA-256: e028b122d910ee95730d3b978703d96cddf65276abeda63774e26122451d093b
font_03_sfnt_off0001215e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c