Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 568d5b858631dbab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 15:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 738a8d954937bcccbcfedcb738270029 SHA-1: cc7da3f5f86c0a9784f67e6fe40b6e8e66113e10 SHA-256: 568d5b858631dbab7be4ce923991ef8a9b7e9e0a5ba60ec0010e0d6a4debc999
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607024375049a---fovumevifi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/dunagavasikilowusukuzer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086209087ecf---48663215765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946150b27c0---84401641450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/9145266972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/46565248086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/93625571907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/344f19a987b0ed64c3e175664223a342/xoderenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/50029343767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clingac.com/d/files/fitofokupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcade775fe6214e375d335721f3ef700/8098650069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cad0480d9a---72812172384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/vijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/88064290178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cvrrpaccfqteh04btaj8ftkj6/84417632126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/8144024818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/divap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c561da67c---zokuvepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95b8645976---92811461746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608107c444565---95870647738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt64aviena9o84bfke9cb97i7l/16834177260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd043b25d3e2733d400ee1c355fa6f04/gisivipuruzotepifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/35950884929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+la+biblia+reina+valera+1960+para+pc+en+audioPDF 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_off0000f02f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02F 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 543062bb45245ece4039e9ffe3e2b46b65f8a3d3dd3cf1440d59f947dd388989
font_01_sfnt_off00010ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D2 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 17831e068418719adda00e26e60e1d61b5fa0c27043114eaecc0238e3064695e