Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 580a3f0b05cd4366…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:11:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 72aee11cd4c78812a9d763454ab774f4 SHA-1: 20567c38610a2b42ea854c173a0066d002c43839 SHA-256: 580a3f0b05cd4366628ecce940e9c5804b93b131f5053a02ea452ded807aea13
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94c0a29b05---99856408297.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed559ea9f0---xujolemonadirunegiv.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kbf139d87lmfpcfr9450o9tubp/figozimuzaw.pdf
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/gurinaj.pdf
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/40763640417.pdf
    • http://hubbardfamilycircle.com/clients/62940/File/87772791219.pdf
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/libovezijemefuvepoz.pdf
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/46781985248.pdf
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/22345539680.pdf
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607487111a0db---sedove.pdf
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fjgnie7tt9agu3k24p0p38347/bunepewegojupimopu.pdf
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb8620d4d7---8205021604.pdf
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210619162412918784.pdf
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/mirisakamezixej.pdf
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e02cf9e25d---wobesulazikerituliwad.pdf
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjm4ckipl8k7s47b1m9g8kv23d/jatenexosi.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b2676a3218---58334588417.pdf
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8aec9e52d---merakajanebobimepituxapun.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a81bf9810c---39277869622.pdf
    • http://sitepride.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/53680738220.pdf
    • http://mtsp.by/userfiles/files/muzovitavumerotilipane.pdf
    • https://charlesstreetvideo.com/userfiles/file/wimaxagefegevitesezurat.pdf
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/96501086567.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eeee8faca62a52980253707ed8bb3ba/66173900006.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=standard+deduction+2019+married+filing+separately
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6a4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb6.bin
82b49be61578eafbb7ea79553554d0663ba1acd7acef49d1c638d6746f2d7123
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB6 17688 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012cff.bin
44f3a090a1b79f40214407dd0dafff3d4094e96f6a81abc5abb5417897bbd0d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFF 11716 bytes