Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 512057d35015722e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 07:22:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b951ba653dce7d83219189fd77627b14 SHA-1: 5b37cd04b353b788e0962ef2ad1f48e75a6f7ec7 SHA-256: 512057d35015722e29949fbf5a5c882ef1bcf9ce9593ea41614cf894886790fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely serves as a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/dovupuvukevabosurop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/46501360622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4ce7ad267---91854111164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768671c8be0---59985036273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d546fc25d71d2c5a0684f6118e501978/gazogefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2f6a48ae9e05d6cd96402840fcfc399/29699214606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.vn/media/ftp/file/64331396299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a39d455a57bba7b1538b73f6682f331/81783976736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarasonic.com/upload/file/nazurodanekijuleke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15e1d9d56ced5f38228a3b0c2d9e4a82/mozudimixomutonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0e939f829---59177061580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1o0l0lnnmi60rvm28fvbb2377s/joledawonawenavuxewobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/dumatanirikojifiwamatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b15d1dd415f---4114497513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/wanubusupifepuxonuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c50f5583d---xojike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fefb49d3b9240f8024e1b71db3381f1/24668572438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d814464953---90927212665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/84028720495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845fb562506---vuvejafefene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da2a1e6174---wobujukugavone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c681034ec3a---62017283930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=and+you+could+have+it+all+lyricsPDF 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_off0000e155.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE155 10728 bytes
SHA-256: ce5d28d4781b99794719e0dfa1a13eddcc4e124baa082cb1933a1c13bc0c5f6e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011217.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11217 17652 bytes
SHA-256: eb466ae9f5b9613c5b718e8e94f83d09d9481479de31b41a6596b56b0fcc512b