Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd523a3c3e2a63c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:48:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 63f1f2c944d89427290c545b91b8f99a SHA-1: 77aa8ab6ba9fb04fdb30d92d0d23cb85fd1268bb SHA-256: fd523a3c3e2a63c3d31cc281d922d89788b799e6fa22763f76e6c6b936942476
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 WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the URLs likely serving as the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=with+a+pinch+of+salt PDF link annotation
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/393c6797d258d3599dba999dbe3fab72/rarurutur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87fae42451923460f5057a659965169/retelolafevutitasikamodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenld.com/userfiles/82991333145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20e02c2bfabb466b263800b3ecda923b/bilede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/potiwibisog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608807bb29622---nekegufazakupor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a879e68443---depijorimojurabufozumapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/53357200130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodslib.com/userfiles/files/2510491364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuanhongkhang.com/upload/files/2037434481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6282n34svb9s7ogv78u6td7uu/98777009356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/000e8904fd6efe5d63458ca4c3d9cce4/141123907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacc05434e4---57687585878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elshandmadedesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43603282420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/worawetolesopeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vsrr5pjvht2c6kpaig8e2v58g5/3371542908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/maxomifezobapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a425e9582---renujatigixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086465b2b34c---gaxefud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/basivani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be566312e87---2548060714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/99014203650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/611dl1bvl73gmo2cbnnqjgvaav/zabufutiwiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indel.sk/userfiles/file/58413510312.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_off0000dcb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCB8 18304 bytes
SHA-256: 2487cb07566c53769be3d9e306d2a939fa6bf519caceafc8682c42f57daf2d31
font_01_sfnt_off00010c68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C68 10340 bytes
SHA-256: e2946497df7ddaa9c520254e563dd3585f347c810789be01b62bf0c30a146f7b
font_02_sfnt_off000123b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1