Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 500077f6681258d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-20 22:11:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7c5cabf41c89c7b8a6267cd1c45ba6fa SHA-1: 3db28fa03df7a9090fe5cde110dcc44668c6f0e7 SHA-256: 500077f6681258d82a10b5eab4e23049dbdeaf9e95444a5bcb3da7c6f247d93f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=a+million+dreams+sheet+music+piano+easy PDF link annotation
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhooh0uernme97i92e9dcvuve2/15512740414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba5cbb857b---xagomavosidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/gafusapezakovodobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarefusumijurala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/38394054106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f687efe2c0b---porig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/16540332613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb02e1c603---vuvumuxopixategu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/13454480222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auldskoolrocks.com/clients/878384/File/1616278442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca2b55a69ee---94854542633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00c55abccd262aa215e6a6f13d38d93c/94645557154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/zezekupojogoxibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epoxidice.ro/mm/file/78258302119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/12268547978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/lamudowokomoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0599b6357d21047543d34baf45d3f39/46982315094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tp2op1b4f0vs9si0tp3kl5lcm3/24527929579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/94023410400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091b495b77c9---28464329284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077631f4c037---benetotobarogomulaviwavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a4177bb935---77752771397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9dbeb4b35f30eb94b0078fc882b9b5e/dixafikafutuxofibugozomik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d985aecf01---vejololonata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents//files/julinovegekufokuzatinumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295ad0cc6595ac6a69f9c2e4fb0b9822/dekimemeg.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_off0000e247.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE247 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA59 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 7997b65e85a3decbb9449f7e8589f05f9acee4fe5ade9a0699a1021409937db9
font_02_sfnt_off00012775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12775 10972 bytes
SHA-256: c785c153410c42704161f0386dce93d76f27ac1d051f4860dbbb41cf34c9918a