Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 517b7b75320cc680…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:11:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 440463860a30520245664255d010ad99 SHA-1: 4f811b1976bfcec9cd1dfc5660efbf4661e13297 SHA-256: 517b7b75320cc680976946411a618221f645ceafe6fe516466b58d6428fe08a1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it's designed to host or redirect to malicious content. Although no scripts were extracted, the nature of the URLs and the detection results point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d248e018b0---72778410882.pdf
    • http://fabriziocar.it/userfiles/files/83935479039.pdf
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/764d7158d2375211ca67f97cb1c1d76b/71678651071.pdf
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu9h9p82dl29vodttk3151pv4a/jutid.pdf
    • http://effekt-film.de/files/file/89343107788.pdf
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/93768379369.pdf
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efd523231d8---85603396536.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de2ecbaeea2---27267126811.pdf
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4576be191633d7fbb81fdd36cbb5b46/fatakef.pdf
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamusurivinukugati.pdf
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4479305065---zajetej.pdf
    • http://theofficefurniturestore.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ziporovekadelo.pdf
    • http://magyaringatlanadatbazis.hu/dev/_user/file/vusolaxesimusalazige.pdf
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/zorafediwekoba.pdf
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128cfd78c4b9---13517585479.pdf
    • http://onishi-kyosendo.jp/archive/pitok.pdf
    • http://cdwy028.com/uploadfile/file/20210618195501.pdf
    • http://csc010.com/userfiles/file/20210809124411_5cpwnm.pdf
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c48cde314---zukuke.pdf
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf2a8614d6167817fba79f9067c0273/28271043238.pdf
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiguroxalat.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609831e1d957a---45735673462.pdf
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/07/files/210718001520.pdf
    • http://medical-1669.com/userfiles/files/vefavuzit.pdf
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/52793298599.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=maruti+swift+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c853.bin
84806e5746a6e4401458fd5d22c0928dd8298a190165d173774bd1afd001f001
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC853 10268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000df9a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF9A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7ac.bin
08ab0c58f04743b50f5e195585258143ad02bd619e39fba447096d1f6c4d1d3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AC 18508 bytes