Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 582e415df15ba666…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.5 KB Created: 2021-07-24 03:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: cfd0dff0555498fe042557942131fae1 SHA-1: d3fc90eb21eb43280e70e7f96dbc186e893c17cd SHA-256: 582e415df15ba6664296b80220dc1548554846e8130c2fdbeeb5069c4a8476e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of directing users to potentially malicious or compromised sites. The document body is unreadable, but the structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9920

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://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607ae21eba230---roragopafanegedor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae5usv73ecil8ekb7udh90tvak/83878024797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents//files/12540354092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessservicesuk.com/userfiles/file/wifewelaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c96mj64eppq1fbq0ff7r3p6ke/jumomosirosolumokodukenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0d971fb9a---sejidinex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/dipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f4a4323a14226f62073e3c70edd4a74/zekebiwapakuzavebogoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609185526e3dd---wazuveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/39275028857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e10fcb536---45093295434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8c3e3af16---rexunazubofixogugupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f81b52356d0419a45b4c75704c5da0f/roxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a43f331435d1faf020ca15ef5b206ba/99623390526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/90095387226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c9b45a7a4a---piwubajizogupezojusenupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/85575810549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa04110ff3---faberonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a244da8879---53608351421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5821ef01d1047d73a07ecc0acf841433/51663310305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techniq.ae/admin/uploadfiles/file/lamipasosilaguwugide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160952fa682f00---80430546769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/79324189994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/19680226853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072a02c6766c---52757386103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghocasiochinhhang.net/uploads/userfiles/file/46640691217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+some+of+the+potential+ethical+issues+associated+with+ethnographic+field+researchPDF 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_off000176e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00018ef5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18EF5 18444 bytes
SHA-256: b597ff75a2359c2612f2846ed43abf4d39ee2a36500f8b49312b6de5a3d0db15
font_02_sfnt_off0001bcff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BCFF 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 01b68532077bc13e7d435628262a8b25026c1044cfbd30fe9fc9e9ad7235a803