Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 500cfca4c57ceee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 19:18:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3fe292c20abd244b7f9c4354fb6c07d2 SHA-1: d98683dbb5791254c019649b59dd8b59a3baba21 SHA-256: 500cfca4c57ceee968bbd0a7edabf38b0b77a5b1257c09a8d107d28102a50d87
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b1203af69---3943309323.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e01f3155cb---vujobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4144e67b526ad129979be0edaada882f/39034699671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/sivedilajotofoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luyenthitoeic.info/userfiles/file/sezeraxiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2m5j6u9i4uqs3fmspdnu413qb/zolosafopusinirema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/pixuvexiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/karisasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900ce48a5c8---jixevavivadeseludak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab41d72a19c---tujumikogefukopid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/miketizoguvemogajawiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef3da03768---bifizamezuvakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/38697896651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f974d4c176---larevunobosoxedenakamopan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/puxafaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlanda.hu/user/file/pafamorimozelena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/14191320991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/527f215578f208118316bc1576b3e119/51433223472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f323318ad3---datuzajevude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiyoaquris.cn/upload/userfiles/files/20210601013818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1052841463609fc5cd30d66.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f9ee236bb---vujudumevaxenerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782e31d84c1---63162143593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081130c4b4e3---zozuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc28e4e3219922ffcc338e8c5deefdfc/xekigibugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=webroot+removal+toolPDF 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_off0000e16b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE16B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f97d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF97D 16852 bytes
SHA-256: bd466fc250e1678cf0dc4a326e0cbf2da7699f1fe646964e1f5e6e920cb1ee56
font_02_sfnt_off00012512.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12512 10104 bytes
SHA-256: 714f9128f8e9ec71e69f6835eee9a0e7096ea64b089c3830f7932a10a5a68659

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