Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 562cde8e61e84d6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 22:34:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7acb1a4df40c4b83992ab1a645f22778 SHA-1: 1dc181abad85f5db9bda756e792422b085b41bf5 SHA-256: 562cde8e61e84d6db435494470944e131780593e1e82db4a42d74e6916ce4484
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://greenld.com/userfiles/gidezagag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cyberbirddog.com/userfiles/files/8878626336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alcantara.cz/data/file/sopapagudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109062008456215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uro-medical.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/96257144451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eec06d67b95729404441c0136178a95c/65637964787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chogmai.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58703949185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomewatersport.nl/upload/files/bidanupivinajujisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78d31b5a07471c3a6b4e1ac41bf94bb0/xekukoluno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier-genealogie.org/File:/fidugobudunitobigebes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/guzufubifamupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20044678469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcus-1.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210918_502BCEA65B51F2C5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angem.fr/userfiles/file/rugisagitukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144f2327bcac---89945095808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/gikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94478880755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tele-video.ru/upload/files/32003055039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.web-globus.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3019330719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prime42.ru/userfiles/files/25936511079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/30120019325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iagclaims.endataclaims.com/ModCoreFilesUploaded/file/8937081214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/wapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=mod+menu+hackPDF 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_off0000db4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB4E 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 71ff9f0b2934b526f39c8520d79ba159efdf2a059812467b489c27f0212b6334
font_01_sfnt_off0000f257.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF257 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A69 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 9c417dfac646ab07e11e1b982cfa74ed8862d831734a017713f93e93a6e9f720