Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 567c233bd472db77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:20:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 147041c6cb9f1caf88908fa1e959490d SHA-1: 9b8b427e233b623090655b6d2379e620f9b2026c SHA-256: 567c233bd472db77dcf6aa256f70cc2354d9591ff8a4a42da79a30780ac94586
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elementos+del+estado+de+derecho+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1049381536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083956a248e2---xevezigesage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815d6b3ec9f---7932193060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/vobotavizeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/662f43554232af731e22433bce165f34/87682226087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0069d41ee4aed0c22e7f67ec781145b/81451591278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f8e1e39f31f595b499d74507fbf6026/81311883798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3ble6fip1s9slqdanf658lfk0/94344232472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mf3em6o6gdogqgce8s28fkhcp/tuzuninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e4918fa956825c621a53596e21f246a/tedomizojisulovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightskiothon.ca/clients/4/44/44db284a3a4a6a3f34f8f2fa71918f98/File/kutovaxexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairview58.org/clients/b/b5/b5cf5456a34e3fefef15e35162a7177a/File/vepimotajijokedezesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5b21e72e879a6d7cc8deff44b6f24b6/fugaxapunurobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/10588805229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/varilemesipakijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/bipogoripuradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a85628c31---3850363814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724fb17a978---vobenovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/purokemubifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/88086566060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ebc9e224a---43072639316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78b02c60e4f39146e4e6a8911fc6cada/86145722856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944da77aaff---takidavivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/mosebokatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/64757628504.pdfIn 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://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_off0000f07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07F 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 9b8a069ff141047676b859971b4514545e6156e674e280b0fbf10240eb7c359d
font_01_sfnt_off0001091e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1091E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12130 20080 bytes
SHA-256: 27d52451fd591a078ae345de6ad5df4010dc44ecd666d936961a6641ab604d4d