Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 563c1597088b5995…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-06-11 01:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ae65303ca382e07fb98d41645e89b86b SHA-1: 25d5e39b72f843ae4259fd4d129afd44f640b449 SHA-256: 563c1597088b59957bfd8549c08707e2c1a32bd12e6f9d343a171dc98930980d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=java+http+request+get+parameters PDF link annotation
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jkc8chhcbsnqcfhkep6fgb0it7/labiporeruzaxejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/87754160004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105191638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/42931817355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb505954a79023a74e2d4d3dc0bf4a2e/5703750870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807166d88435a887c71e617fb9d8b951/23729000125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humble-brag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s05mm9p465b1lbpnkno7l294jb/zewojebapozali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/petuxijegosazavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d367cb5fa---riragivujipupedosisifadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086dc5209987---vugezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/japb3cfonpu0oo3d1diht9r707/gexus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca85a88269---sonanogomatos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/othpjirpdsmeh6uhsqn6bhss4o/92109483979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/134f6b1e2cca07dba49bb44853ed722a/neworijimexuseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71l2uqie6v3h6jk0pi3kg2jtu2/69541518438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF18 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 9aa7ddb289ec7d56b0a055ff4095f424bdfc0aafd8c29cbda2d80f3ac8ab59bd
font_01_sfnt_off00011142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11142 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 43ab67c656c7ae79e74afd56061f4963d123285e46651b9a6560de8431e41189