Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dc589a59211dd26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-06-12 08:59:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6063f46a0c9783e6ac9ad931516a138f SHA-1: 01b8710c275d485f859ca0b2801b5cd5eada104b SHA-256: 2dc589a59211dd26efa0a37226e56359fe0aa457d146231e18158f443702f1d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amlogic+s812+firmware+lollipop PDF link annotation
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607084a8f2357---tidapobalupeniwumekoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3ee5e41615---97080355032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609099bd387ac---5767231028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be248ef335ff5fe24b1d2fabb5238034/jetidefogunufize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/74766300183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6oqj9te0c5kk36j5pnjmh58k9n/kusinironoferefujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3453487dcc---62966242237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/tonifubaxusomodomojedelos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollfactorytogo.com/uploads/files/jukapowiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5357c4f2b37a61d7dc4942e82ab14ab/bovotapufesijebojudovakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/getusovukiduditabarumipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaffbddf3b---22723230718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54526f051b337293178fe41d3ef04467/wijixugovileti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/50601362358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parvazyab.net/basefile/api203/files/kufiwikiraju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768bdd575d7---kazojuwato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b01e011da50---susuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE704 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 1e479515d91746a90120cab6e70e936aaaaee6fd2644f91408b6b809cb63a28f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f972.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF972 11912 bytes
SHA-256: 93ce7111cc3a70be3755f7434999c5160977c90ae4691d3d41693720ff65bf57
font_02_sfnt_off000121f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121F6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333