Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2583c57495bb4150…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-08-15 20:59:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: ad57379c2ceecf38380d1def06dd3cf3 SHA-1: 7c329927900a167b655af5d5852fd96bee6eceb4 SHA-256: 2583c57495bb41506293170409187936a6dbb23b261a22dddab04fb2ed5cfb67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual content, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a redirection-based attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9744

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 http://ballstonfamilymedicine.com/clients/861402/File/62377253604.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://palestraarkadia.it/userfiles/files/xowigazesatinakapov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinireedcorp.com/userfiles/files/45284071857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c6d3b8d26af3c3fbc55d0bc45879d5d/sonokizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/317280fcbb4716fde75130712f7a8912/lekawafidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tischlerei-schlusche.de/sites/default/files/file/95868090797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmt24.ru/files/file/torevajiparijaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/muzarevazim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3c393afe5b---35049908111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/nibitoniritid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0s5nabqmdi8sh6kn8jcnu89tf/60112547278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37735ffa044e8a52eb920aa7cfef133/16166903615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-7/file/93326838720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oykufestivali.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16821614126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d624c36961---65173979616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b3f44e475---68972093864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161089d71d29b9---mejavigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/kijon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/sazagokuvorawufawovit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/8532049757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a151df403d9---37564178981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/suxegewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/90796030971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisestudentz.com/userfiles/file/gavuvupaxawabixali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1hptm6c890agevg6jcva5j6rr/supagamigirefixupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080690549832---30884746718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=tencent+gaming+buddy+pubg+emulator+lag+fixPDF 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_off0000e26d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE26D 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 9cdeaea17e8a1d2ebc60d349366c9a23373b452732c2db37a5dea9a49b722444
font_01_sfnt_off000111b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B6 16276 bytes
SHA-256: ef858b01719cec29ba59f81a977f79613a1aab7fbc1f32c2ef09c5dd0d876d7f
font_02_sfnt_off000127b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013fca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FCA 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 42dfec34286a19c0ecf913b82fa1e27bad749d7a1b8c36b71c146cff7d23fd69