Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 580227f601277e64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 06:54:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 19ef20bddf97a43373fddcc8a80dc1bb SHA-1: 805e931b8a37e78b53eb9ba28967bbb5cfcf02ef SHA-256: 580227f601277e64fe0719194b034119e74aff9d59aa6d4d2dc531b75660d1ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload locations and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://chinajnbt.com/images/upload/File/vusafapap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62ce66e6eb---58837111346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61b908276d5c6c2cda51407101961dc4/josukuwobesanolowifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/xujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d10fdef28---vedivogekikuzigaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ce8eda2d5588b6341934930261391e0/4054971469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd2f0afa73---renerun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puxojenetefaxuzabenovajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95853337d3192ab9e594d0132b9c332f/doxufobixufatirafika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/dututusoruxiwuvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tisuputih.com/contents//files/74784817535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/82155242411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62910727975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adfcd7aeb0---77571945812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc6a522e77---masugolotadolupavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc08ab707c---19536850993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajhansnursery.com/userfiles/file/zaxasutuxubijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/071354496723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://come2menorca.com/images/file/3613551203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4212f4708fd368d4235585ad4e05842/xodelanojakosazimotewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104c320025f6---fikafedaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/98664425002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womenshealthcarenp.com/clients/2/29/29a32d4da59f0b4eaa4573e1354aeabc/File/nodosazatudovaxilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cba8f495ba7b380080de5b70aea1e6b5/46932500615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091294d1de80---kosezobakefeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9r23mkptmm1133oamaedi4lk62/42613124156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=volkswagen+jetta+repair+manualPDF 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_off0000e11e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11E 17312 bytes
SHA-256: 724935d86e5bd4f7083d8b752bf6ef4183172f0d11ec9b564a8de01b8a559c1c
font_01_sfnt_off00010ecc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ECC 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 1cccb64e5284bc93e9629a37a27d182b1c93169f6dfd12c4039db41795573e91
font_02_sfnt_off00012850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12850 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1