Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 586993f9b4e9c2b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-07-25 14:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 040f2df16f381f85e74aad7f9ba61a63 SHA-1: 93374c00e8a992621f67175f3731e36396f52128 SHA-256: 586993f9b4e9c2b5581e92d52924dc53f5555af20283e731a8580a36acaabf07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9757

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.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ddc3a7351---10070044356.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b6d9551e9f9e797062b50e10295ea3d/91394309372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6bf9bb813---xufomorojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/zabosogupow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb1c06212b---rovuwumubikowisopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/jekefubinokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a769bc38427---18998344920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/nuzepaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf39167e558---96954787420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://folklorebridge.eu/uploads/pictures/files/31369314994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/kalaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbox-technology.com/upload/datoteke/fejazabogizuvivudonomete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/tiwevuxitujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f291aea4cd---lodesosuvetazoditawem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knnggt6skbrdii35ch81lf71se/vefofosowegobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d04d1782d19---25345798549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e728b167b87ab698f4fb28a0c6aaab/golefepevawerafujonijiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccfe3f25480---32153996192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thumpamonpally.com/userfiles/file/64082710286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/rigewewamapilel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/85774408293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/mepovulalofadurotosozosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcolley.com/uploads/files/zepuwagisamerorukaxugoguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb0d696fe21---namilixelukebaliloral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/fiterifekifuwamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a036140dfe1b97d3c0a5ba062c8751bb/gesajiguvijutimarowaloge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=download+summertime+saga+0.18+6+apkPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c03b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC03B 16280 bytes
SHA-256: 64c7be1c18bf78f0f1be86d0a927ffc63d8adcad95ed54073aa3bda06fcef14f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA72 11632 bytes
SHA-256: bed087a79fdf17c677ee208a3448b1e7f05b3b0569751e8f81ad4b513885af5e
font_02_sfnt_off000105fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00011e0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E0A 1884 bytes
SHA-256: 0879a26622a927ab4f4eb5582296dfd827959043a49d92eff5a7dea8aefaa73f