Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 263570afa596b87b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d89432b6bd4ecb26632de3724891a306 SHA-1: eadedb6291e6b96eba5463a382be77b78fd5c659 SHA-256: 263570afa596b87bf4c039f9fbe03372ca2b6076297fd27048c84a0ea5ba0145
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URL structure suggest a link farm designed to distribute traffic to various potentially compromised or malicious hosts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80c5824710---7549398406.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db92828b5fba5299bb93c7eae86e4021/47689634877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/vulidanonatugivigurakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/od3ssbuj9ui7fbq64b9d3eumej/57300612851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/sukubova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095a857d93f6---muvatoxoxinovarixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportsht.com/userfiles/file/71655664157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d40de37c37---79885185362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e78e231e53---gunulafufalirotadivejar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fc11a29326b57cd6f98c1f265bf3893/gemutixowixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79516cb4c47649932917c33edfb8b30c/88977218429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polletnv.be/uploads/files/73095077574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d683d569715---78141511972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607615974d4a8---jenopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/52545006696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609536cc5bbae---15643009249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7599cc345---netoluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f77fc6c0a8b0c907818fc32508a0cf86/20445911601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdlpartnerss.com/userfiles/file/25058526285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozammuner.eu/userfiles/files/74772105966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ada5f71666---63808799572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eec94ecf310d28e78aac0b0be57461f/81756749743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb52d42181a---dipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7sa42deuujac7si2s2ok2req4/rovupajozuxor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akita-inu.lv/www/files/files/19969987660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/89682058992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=application+of+derivatives+in+business+and+economics+examplesPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001166d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1166D 17944 bytes
SHA-256: fb4a04bd1056c71752f359dbb1821b00cefc64a8b2f675331f5226ed5243785d
font_01_sfnt_off000145d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015de7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DE7 11168 bytes
SHA-256: f74a0a99be9f84ee333d9b0d492104296836c5f1b2208550fc7e9c85a9f7d0bf