Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 512bd65e5e38d350…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 21:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 2bf4c36fe9c7c5cb743d0358297ac17a SHA-1: 96e5ca5f937f0f78cf7fe77029f2ba4c7ba3c7c1 SHA-256: 512bd65e5e38d3502ae6b0e61a4b381d4190ed1c1b0155728d4c6c70311ad910
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific purpose beyond the link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c56b4ca97a---guxene.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0841078cb9---21849476704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a30ac83e1275239e0d7cf286e9e48553/rateponawujotol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160934df2a0190---buwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ffa7d22c01---ketutixegowudodebumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duda-tech.pl/dudatech/upload/file/lojijeselalux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/tejibelodovinekaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oepgba04sj6lpvp113bduv1842/14558227138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanharteyoga.nl/uploads/files/6966285149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db347e9d7bd5e2b189a35b5fdce04fc8/wovagopotevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/kagurevotosarodolalusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa44o1cm4p0ttoio93fuk00kku/narig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1e39ee84d3d39a9601885d35e6bbcff/19243020503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f4ef92661---94485736621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/9236514159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/xidapivewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=dont+tell+the+bridePDF 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_off0000f152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF152 17712 bytes
SHA-256: b0c973161679ff93d46fd23b5d13e46b6a5c5300f0080282c8bf91254d323020
font_01_sfnt_off00011f00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F00 10156 bytes
SHA-256: b98656c37f365d85116231600b67de688f0589eb8a6626348373544b9055c384
font_02_sfnt_off0001358c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1358C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1