Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 563572cb7c5a4f75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-30 21:03:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 14f911b07803be1b1c2bb413b780bb0c SHA-1: b36565ed95542feff857a3ab1619668705bdb302 SHA-256: 563572cb7c5a4f75c154121c6bae90cc80389c1ac1299ac55ba540901090b197
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://hanurichurch.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/veseduwamafenude.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c46d0a3ed---53136308766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce8cd1bf81---kexibupamovopovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32b1a9c144bf786791318152b0af733b/83980002166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvgnjvle2vno6hi73jk8rud90q/86869047454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rs44qud7jlqntj8k82gd07vt9o/wozibilolojuluwego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56cab988e9---bedetufisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pk-kuepfer.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wanex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jamikurulumupexoxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/90707357855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1f7ed7c0c0f3c6881b791f2039fff93/26043493434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cccfa4b65---64241746957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/40706264125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/jokigukolokixuputif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8251d6acb---tukafobuzudikepirekikik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f27d5ccc1e2---larum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c198b7d4e091795be21a0ff546934a15/29052968660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/furebedikeniboxuluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/bitenetipudulafolixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3b5c857b1---91763820813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/xemopabate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/4549497748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=photosynthesis+vs+cellular+respiration+similarities+and+differencesPDF 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_off0000f567.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF567 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D7E 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 2f60ede09ea218ab235ac1764834ed97fa7306d068f6e5ba3a32c166c13e3021
font_02_sfnt_off0001277b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1277B 16880 bytes
SHA-256: f24a27e8648ba3122ce3a2e25d56298af23e3f2a59dd92f0eb8ca39823ff5b3a

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