Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 583693b7a974a2f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:04:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2e5913c32f53e3926338e33bb5619233 SHA-1: 1fe041323a052add383bde6a44f68ff4d15df1a0 SHA-256: 583693b7a974a2f5743491bde7879800ff9ab67fcde4f3b266e5c6a8dcfea5a6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination of the malicious links. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071eaedd95dc---9470484737.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ubk-sad.de/azubi/userfiles/files/66350200668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrrc.heart.net.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/16370145879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/vivobolafuvabamemese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c80295603e---67576397771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/63427845415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/6295114109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d09333359cd1b20f7762aa4c856bef74/67777232478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4b2f7adcae1c755980475a512ed2ce0/82304638014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mustwalge.ee/data/content/files/kokijawanajore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/68121878007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca11b6af3e694b4427c01c06e5347db/75846524984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5323a996cfd1696d3959f1ae48fb0e/varitimimemabaxoxomozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxekaxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4921e9f620---kubarovonunuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/xivededalepigutonipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be04e6184ed---74851469265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822e848c100---57217481898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/81067267371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab74790c88---fusejokigikopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/38022016954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe3272ee0750b043011e316f5933bb40/supimowuzeguradexituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e078d45667---9751068147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/31167493439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=science+article+review+worksheetPDF 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_off0000da30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA30 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 373443a1b97bc25c781a14b00c863cfe8d3868e766d1f655af885b3f16ca85bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f289.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF289 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 8a5dd3410539130570d6aa13566c18ebccc3d39029f2ae2414b494913e162345
font_02_sfnt_off00011fdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1