Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 576fe260c8595947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:35:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 98d717a785f5a7527b1ef1f0553e3b6b SHA-1: b8f098fa25c428a80e744bda55f74ea669c2776b SHA-256: 576fe260c859594700cb98a0d7c82cb8e76f3914e7201425d2f851009b1bdd5a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=organs+of+speech+phonetics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fe49d9772---86169457599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezerwatch.com/file/upload/files/07-18-21-02-22-10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d007b9468b---mowebidasasupali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e16211644---74244180318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d388197e39f68a34f5d5d2bf0288f459/voluwobamaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f5539cee51---mipozibagovan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611066d2f1025---83918010888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06f0d3db6ea271c32b25217fd8d3a537/69780953952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30b78b047df6defe2beeac2d151ceccd/vumejufesuvedukafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf8586124edcc4bd13087abdd9ff148a/tegijipovik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/972f8a274482780dee431040f006a83a/7855498287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stilistspb.online/public/files/uploads/files/midavisuvowegejetivizeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/do0u1go0c85o1e6qao1bcahha2/lazawubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/65332189180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs65.org/clients/b/bb/bb65574a37642f7fe3135935df861e67/File/tuzegalofuwaguzisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vidol.nl/userfiles/file/15292283766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/20660535725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/75132994112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jn4dbgagttsdvpn1d5joni4355/28187368197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valaisconsulting.ch/file/6351913707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ec6f3a9b6---jajebanejuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22b4743ef1---41003011049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/dozuzalawubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/27188816144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001076d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076D 10876 bytes
SHA-256: ecf672bc8d4a21c2af4475fb8ad5d88698aeab3544c96d33d62b6468de12f562
font_01_sfnt_off00012054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12054 18656 bytes
SHA-256: 66bbb5f6cbda9dddf99f4c80ab0b1ce71df3277bfda6610609d35978512870f3
font_02_sfnt_off0001515c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1515C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1