Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd3482fb97f19054…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-07-26 02:46:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b857220c67d5dd9dfeefd936237b287c SHA-1: c09db9a4b774e481797a7800b4dd06c169bf9681 SHA-256: fd3482fb97f19054723b6b0de69d200006262d1c9e4edae20aa7f2e1faf2655d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings suggest it's designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, potentially leading to a second-stage download or phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806d9d58321---navazeritotetowabufuwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://luatsuavina.com/userfiles/file/40411655703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/10932351308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/forevuruwalemigagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c584a0cb507---72648068047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11qeh4qdql9hgp8j2oom9lugg1/66183292585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrmax.ca/clients/9797/File/suxujojezupivomozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cca50f7bd---mexasuzebogapozunilafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c2237e19a---ladaboraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/6605002536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d2824ba1a---78677512595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/petupisunalurafas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba2ee4e256d---90520906619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73sonsdila8tq8bb278b5jd3ap/37611774205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01ba2eb11c5558e8c172fa06cddd7f5b/dojelomudojaruwituriguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daglichtfilters.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74297136937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/45539339872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwallacelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/93487013719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushibelovo.ru/files/21493897687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eogl2jtd8dfid4a4f38tevh2tf/52612737648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90ef2c1d00c63d49f85b0e3dc1473a1c/70221968461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/66635098611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65f8c28d8a---kejerewuvisideni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobuzagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=monocotyledon+and+dicotyledon+plants+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eaa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA3 16224 bytes
SHA-256: dc06733fb1b3e8baa4303a7b234726769048d67753183ec25fed266cd0fe6b8d
font_01_sfnt_off00010068.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10068 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 69f141824e803d463e4eea62c1afae2fe2475703431e586122d38aadeaffcf4f
font_02_sfnt_off00012f61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014778.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14778 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 3adb2d7735bfad7e433664dc8f33ad47463c8fcf09942e5b64495f526166c94b