Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd1b4ef55912d373…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:30:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: edef8b8af71521b20f819772d354a90d SHA-1: 71dd2de8b03e2322713002f7247023d1cb08e068 SHA-256: fd1b4ef55912d37332454429738f09b9dab83a2ff45f6e1e12fe45d3a477c578
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially malicious PDFs. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and associated URLs are strong indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=present+simple+worksheets+for+grade+3 PDF link annotation
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffcb960922---tobafisexupimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba282357b84b001da716fab3f9baa6a7/delulopitofuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendingchat.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/vejixefunaroxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/73331591316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/2336902748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/66641556087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunwayhk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29678065635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/63456880584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutka.pl/media/upload/files/95f776ca2e3a04710b6376229dbec9e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b83448f241c917b5e306dc8dbefee50e/72579837788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/7426914310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totounited.com/contents//files/50206628931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3979fe3e3d---wilitak.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/86612966464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgd42.ru/userfiles/file/34224143048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/pulilupuzufef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grapes4u.ca/sites/all/sites/grapes4u.ca/files/xunemalevirotalasobevalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/judodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5623fed5cc---96622499125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilspa.ro/userfiles/file///85131196052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8f1de83900374bff19dd66b4a6786ed/5578677652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upperdublin1970.com/clients/3/3b/3b2fb281f4756d03d37a29c41a8c1d95/File/62114132539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tptr287fcanedia3v7d9oosqt2/87066991598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/files/buzegebopepelululomenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsa-billiard.by/images_from_html_editor/file/kenajasamefafumowanig.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_off0000d846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD846 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05D 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 5b8b4f92b99260ce1de36d7b4610232c451c0975a825b6321ec021af4b1d5334
font_02_sfnt_off00010a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A94 17608 bytes
SHA-256: d39d7d4f08d9d54c7de65bc4b3e8f39dc42fb2fe2b7aea4591aa64e3501ae099