Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 574f9b18afce882b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-08-02 17:18:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 486c255fbc8e7e026f7f6d403ea28c61 SHA-1: 5f1f59668eb77d9180fa5e016821c6187f80cbb7 SHA-256: 574f9b18afce882b1de79f9f50d5a3c3aaf43035620dc5d1768b7bfda5b8133c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a lure for users to access malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of disposable hosting indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c967db58017---93783568323.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0575b21847d0131670683011747b010/5755827387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077111a40ec8---84217479661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1182c64b8f---17155530228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgosvo.ru/files/files/dodumevuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eiu48gb37dv1861lofvghh9ipf/mupufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607994f6ac044---netekepogamaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5cd09b714---vakosiwokavaputepivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/zawanuloxuguxixizozag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/gebejujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073879919b4c---rejububokuwukife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19294e74c7---lerowalegubibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b34af5a79780160778796c28d5f1477/83541346796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity-pro.ru/userfiles/file/makufidukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/lubuvetiporuxabekimal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d350f2e0f5db275e2c6f610f89ad0fa9/59816766330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f259bdbc51---duvukaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bc30e93db---83396506627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afce6b7f465---zitezubisugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dajovosinafoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5uempat.com/contents//files/90888366511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/busiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810428aac63---vemejogojaromesuvozaxife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c974a6f019b---jufipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+compound+interest+rate+in+excelPDF 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_off0000fabf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABF 17984 bytes
SHA-256: d62acdec91c6146d83695d08b45ab33968876d16a9ce4621da0b818dbdf26434
font_01_sfnt_off00012ab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AB6 10952 bytes
SHA-256: c24b03997f0c3ad542371b704da00f24b04364829c7fdaca9117c7b835987c2c
font_02_sfnt_off00014419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14419 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1