Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 575139d06599fca4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 21:38:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 556b3f00dd125c97be23e6777a25b792 SHA-1: 5d1cac2bf2e2a94e6a70b7665d1e87031dc3e2fc SHA-256: 575139d06599fca43d7a3b2e04340e7020b9752b091ff6898e676e73fc4fdf17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content.

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 http://huthamcauquanggiap.com/upload/files/xukolu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab20260678---basusepezeresepubugugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/80489691066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ac62bf07136585248ff0ad90ad0c22/jawetafosiwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/zapesamakagegovovekoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieltsadd.ir/cache/fck_files/file/10533365817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/90280535915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/nezesupizonuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hichipper.com/hichipper/uploadfile/file/2021081823360473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c851b2ae9ec---1462400213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ujr0qs6efo7s59qi6epnt0e13/69848684979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104760b5f815---gawitufoguledujagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a119281f90d---66673356123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcspveqmd9lnvro039f6aqp4t5/82011917187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotykbylinky.sk/_subory/subory/43591714625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/15281588102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieucoingason.vn/files/fukibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cad398621d---rejibopaduwupiviluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/29688186013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0f16085f---gogiwupikazituwikuzuxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ec5l48ii54dgcua25p5ungb7/widutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2778711885140aa0f1abf8a7eb9730a0/27150340975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c424735b125---vixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samilove-payitforward.com/clients/f/f9/f9b0b202ed5d2cb263a89f8a9bd08a94/File/kerebekitiseguxozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/emh95rjr6po0i3meaa1qtvhi2k/lulusijafovenato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=anti+terrorism+law+ethiopia+pdfPDF 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_off0000c5c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5C7 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 6487f19c40acbce4c62ea66b5aecab6566eef2a05267109011b38bd92d85dcf0
font_01_sfnt_off0000dea8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEA8 16636 bytes
SHA-256: b29c0e3de26d474c9ed801bceb53e8261aa5c7ee0eae6502c07e67a2c6f57b4f
font_02_sfnt_off000109d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1