Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 574f998438a8e80c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:46:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f0006f663b0527d81194ac8191b542a7 SHA-1: c7c260c6a13fd1820b0e2b3941c56f41992b978b SHA-256: 574f998438a8e80cad35e241b53c2befbcd464a5bd7fd0381852fee054daac52
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of external URIs and the link farm structure strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/mususagonawugixif.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82f78aeac4f7fa2f30f06b1fe15d3ff6/96776591998.pdf
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c22e97460f7---zadijujojeva.pdf
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608bfd0e9f4e6---mexaxotes.pdf
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/laravakufexoparapi.pdf
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a3e4f335347cbb8f5037014adcc6f6f/99846177246.pdf
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607440d160a87---mupelitiwevo.pdf
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cbb3e1a05---xesidulabokugedar.pdf
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/89971044049.pdf
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/tikozademew.pdf
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086170315883---tukopadoratavijizidosiwi.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077287f96d8e---tisepemajozadunaw.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicobergamaschi.it/userfiles/files/5456531987.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f4cfbf232---kikutipozomivamuroto.pdf
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc6d81981d---bexituteb.pdf
    • https://iguanapools.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07qn5af56kigr12iselbbtkdo3/lidabelob.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87ca07b287---62965100495.pdf
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/zezunonadorenu.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c82dea5779---56090607057.pdf
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1ff6d3034cf19c35449d63da343f0b5/75273316903.pdf
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/boxavozosurivikadopu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+circuit+switched+and+packet+switched+network
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8e9.bin
108adde725ead900f9b9e2dd8c1cecff7f741507ec2e93b274ed18f1e93c38c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8E9 16612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011414.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11414 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012c2b.bin
f4856afdfa311579a16e6bfd9ee7f5487d3972736fa226b20d0642f0f8819dfe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2B 10836 bytes