Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 576dab744cb6ba26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 05abfd811a478a599f82bab77fb210f5 SHA-1: 9e6e613dfd90337953fbc21cbfc35879ec9ecad3 SHA-256: 576dab744cb6ba26371aadd9ee06eea2f7dc8127246b628f0381036fb5378948
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and embedded URLs point towards a T1566.001 (Spearphishing Attachment) attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://fonixkoncert.hu/upload/file/15618961812.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/tugiwibupurori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a86d7ecc7---4959991206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9090f0d29---bojokedibajupimizozitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ebab2ff8019132bfcc01017c888eb1b/jepulakon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aecc1da4677---75745102187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/vebeguposalezipowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/98202484116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1970fchs50thclassreunion.com/clients/1/19/19770213778af891f1b13fa25f964f50/File/woxopavepebevelazepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/gemuduziwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlevitin.ru/fck_editor_files/files/58578520268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58e2f225d8fe445d00c942a9d38031cf/noxanibolulajukilesuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/33687357686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606d3ec6790f4---36011090525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/94727038091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/97625722317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161334c020a94c---tinojifoxalenufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/sovujimutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saksisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/1535160096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/83584579514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad28347821---65952130313.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e8f39c188---65418788815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=shamsheer+e+beniyam+full+download+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c65c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC65C 21192 bytes
SHA-256: bf19e53bc7b26107d0ac177cf1d4ee047970ed5dd39e326a34965cee04bf7652
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC74 16244 bytes
SHA-256: fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d
font_02_sfnt_off00011262.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11262 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012a79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A79 11180 bytes
SHA-256: 7c99ff477f7215951d89b417431543e1b02a3eb63de8b4d211eb7467d601d838