Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 584d31f52a57332d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-06-21 04:04:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b9d8091a293c906f3d322c3c037fd8a1 SHA-1: eb079816197c5466ba248e3161f6d8e7891956d2 SHA-256: 584d31f52a57332d3941bd8c07e8e3c2cffd2f14df0c632b175180ee053a373e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of multiple links to potentially compromised domains suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797b02bc637---57397937452.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be0319496dd---60942914854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fde1c46e0114339c111dd3e499f60d54/ladufexufarafukepigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3002f6aeb4fffdcff59f13ffc567431/63213058399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df17e63d2e9f458bdad1506995326835/14265974280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a612f3bbe5---20162663256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seabeachthailand.com/UserFiles/file/vapulijixot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29mbkadahf029p1efo90hcp9m4/benudimetukiwutotitofixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastcoastbiker.de/sites/default/files/file/rafajizidebebalato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e00395201fd0d399b8e59271a5bf9c3/womorawedefelufipizofubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160883378d1d23---goluremazeluxibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/xoriduvavisapubupexomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4o4f5b6ahuuj1bmd9ft78g9v20/kemawodufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13963909050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c772325ca1---zefasazalagevameru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/19209229141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=unitale+gaster+fight+downloadPDF 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00010dd7.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x10DD7 22780 bytes
SHA-256: 6eef3b3a6d5d87cdf685a46208d61568d0030143ce96171220e8d35b22d92f9f
font_00_sfnt_off0000c229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC229 5252 bytes
SHA-256: f254200175c7e558d7938269011c03c3e5af1a4163926d10edf024bae9e00b46
font_01_sfnt_off0000d408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD408 6520 bytes
SHA-256: 48f44e4c1c2da3be2d943891bf40b765aae2c48e24faa1b44da4d2768dd68c91
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5FB 11884 bytes
SHA-256: 0178891d954cd5d46b03e96e91febe031154e7dd24bcdb7ff4445a4e2042f995