Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 577b52ea8476d2ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 21:45:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a00c33701f488ea00c24ae10534c426a SHA-1: 7600e61d1a03294ffbfbe6c46868f924d71d25cb SHA-256: 577b52ea8476d2ab23db0a823090fe72f13bbc392053471969940b4b87188ec7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified by heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure suggests it's designed to redirect users to these malicious URLs, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607224c1437b0---logukazujaxexepuxopuba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf8f02d0f9e---49663586443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/89750712196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc65eb178591e24fd84836943a0f63bd/12119583342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160a171c85bcfe---pidobemalilifetisoxukode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d07dc470860a0417c3fa298e481f7c9/89774514098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/96385737873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad9315fa2bae03fe3c83857c65481633/92841176901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ccc066f25---gafanovetipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo.de/res/wysiwyg/file/54387652919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f5a3113544fafec6abdcd4e43246dec/11859655782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/9339102514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrsgazette.com/admin/images/file/gefovorotafatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidlbrooks.com/clients/868292/File/resugibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/pozazenisasizebinebazeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ugyvednok.hu/userfiles/file/60574032401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04395977fa---tubarisakutomivawarigip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/tefasaduxuduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35b64d128ad6b106eb7c3fd4112db715/82801423877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a8a795becc16ee9e1ec4eb7fdd279af/kopapirigeliwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6si3q7knbpeb0hf21gcg422tl2/70722346909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f17a23caf6---91164019093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc5b8e471f---67530876168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=deep+veins+of+the+armPDF 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_off0000ff5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001176f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1176F 17024 bytes
SHA-256: d14fbda72dd03c7f022e6c88c457bc921ac14fec64e3d3dc93705f1c6dad6202
font_02_sfnt_off000143aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143AA 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 552718fb562e4e0e92edc80953bf73d6449be6d51b7cd18e75362a8823799187

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