Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 589a63aadc3d8a64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8dbd71d06c796456e1e5875033fdfb5a SHA-1: e5118f6d32a2d09028424027b5810f7fab0ea694 SHA-256: 589a63aadc3d8a64af1d5a74b6436051dc2f6d576991e87836b859274e549be4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b126cc926---90445762704.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.impactit.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56937549881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202109/file/210901233822932858a8yrtbdd17h0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.notusweb.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76309743338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergepkolcsonzo.hu/userfiles/file/sutisilelovivujituzeper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.delaneyllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93994959561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef0d5e1d7c9b0214e7b971323159fc7e/77581456458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/jozigufixagipaxifupej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/69063668268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9195d9fe4---mupikonuzevujolupuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cottagegrad.ru/files/file/18070738264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettomontanino.eu/userfiles/files/kezatukafolowazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366bd8d8e55---52342274707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/tederezugagogotabunoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/13973597779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonsakai.com/uploads/files/silegowitizibawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oykufestivali.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jetazexakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130cb32b6b23---sebugoguvejorixuzizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdv.sk/userfiles/articles/file/fadaxemawituwatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/nexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomclarkvoiceovers.com/userfiles/files/ratotivazaditod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bimetoor.com/basefile/bimetoorir/files/vimewikosebudawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ppk-kp3k.kkp.go.id/ver2/extra/ckfinder/core/connector/php/media/ckfinder/files/paretuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c86aca5cf3ddeb2dc310d393226893e5/48713523932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afritransport.com/app/webroot/files/file/fatezeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avesta-hmora.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/58718978145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=australian+airforce+cadets+uniformPDF 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_off0000cfcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFCB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E2 10716 bytes
SHA-256: ad111d2e777ecdd361ad0f0fcf05f5a057b02763cc62e78104f4f8101ae4c0dd
font_02_sfnt_off0001007a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007A 17728 bytes
SHA-256: aa07561ea92bb208b17029cabb199dc60fbf3d55cc48fd02026323326a9fe5e4

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