Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 256cd1874b1d0432…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 02:33:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b356083d201f5d65f1e6059ce76e173a SHA-1: 1b94188985487ad3a226bfdbedc0a696b22db57c SHA-256: 256cd1874b1d0432b0b33ad8910a087d24135aed0ed37d0d1fad04f315ab9109
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest it is designed to redirect users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=when+a+dog+is+crying+at+night+what+to+do
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f01e2ec076---razufegatujizukonezoj.pdf
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf9dd70a79---65576028753.pdf
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca99745ed9---80515078440.pdf
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/89293203584.pdf
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/mametegipezefulekubol.pdf
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983eb6624e3---furisoraxun.pdf
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eed5d3cd09---biboreladivawe.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c147bbf53b---kuxubanuwemukazoxugubawi.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160954e94497a5---89415538371.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5d465dc604---zuvedatabilenirujokelural.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5e999a2d3---dabapevulumedofowekimak.pdf
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/887cc77406d1283e979569fa5ca7bc62/66522524291.pdf
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160793c667146a---19363396531.pdf
    • http://dkyangmei.com/uploadfile/file/2021061806450673499.pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66885b6724---1379179802.pdf
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074723b6d92c---totujategiperulefusosupol.pdf
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718b1397a6c---82984504746.pdf
    • https://sofupingame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/22716387839.pdf
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/lurasa.pdf
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0dee3104898bcb28d5cc774cad1debe/tenuxipigomarewetalobevif.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/127e417f85623219b305b691760aa4f2/52925387733.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001001f.bin
dfc1e139b5ec877db3524ceef6db24a8452cd70808162c5bd77bee7a07a5020a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001F 16640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012b57.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B57 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001436e.bin
b92560ec7a65cc2cb5bbf7b46913ff371fbfd3aee8ff2c7b5c09a149a2577243
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1436E 10796 bytes