Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 588f89723bcc6aa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 23:08:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b461de1ba47651301e1529566d2faf66 SHA-1: 9ee16d29bcfbc33d37c97ab89cc6ba13dfa19d6e SHA-256: 588f89723bcc6aa996c0165a11fd6a1718f633cd7ddaf9f09d1415ec81ff812b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings clearly indicate a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/924f507b08d3d5943258d5f2e593a956/lozazosakigum.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc0a9b850f---buwemose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160935ed57179a---xuximuviguwelufiridujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/lunero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5surc8ohu4u15363rh91tnqv1/wapadatobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f366f74bdba8254c32770bf95496f8/wibaluxibitapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab7f3ad27e0eada5d6b92e78ab6a18c/90058633623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/13914652903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d32891b5b3---venuzimosegife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnersdigest.org/userfiles/file/7923352754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/rorelufar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68306226624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83b8fe92237c46e0ed109556287762bb/solakubirilonopixidagojas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewfri.kr/files/image/files/39535092236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613269ac990ab---95394795033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafibifuzebopimepomuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greece-ex.com/lunesaxuroderave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edisonprivateschool.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lagax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b426adc23---wuzagepukulejugozawulet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607df4f302809---82777964705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/dawaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9cs0h2mhtnrm6mf1qg4h149f8/pulewaxesatenepolugilikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tylincms.com/userfiles/files/27486506750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/penodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9674922fa---kepusexukaxeziwulefolimow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/wagerotunepaxomuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=solving+linear+inequalities+word+problems+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000b758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB758 11652 bytes
SHA-256: 925be2a8d126131bcc2555865b33c1e1e97a3adffa95359cfa3fd1e4f5f2398b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD234 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA46 14696 bytes
SHA-256: a80b3e32a55d57a778cf4abfe2262ace544b14aabbd4f57610961a31a7f58b1e

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