Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 589d55e31532aabc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:43:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b206577074788fe753c35b8f2078cdc2 SHA-1: c0b127bdbf8f9ffc0fb4008e446af4cd842c9f03 SHA-256: 589d55e31532aabc0183be6521c0d02a985307f328c63b15709d8444fa17ab47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious PDF detected by ClamAV and ML classifiers, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reasonably+well+meaning PDF link annotation
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26a4c912d5b259035f459a190a077400/25480822041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/knisgq7dout444mg0s493sat85/misegawited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwallacelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30174166404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a2eade52d---jawidokobijisimifelefigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098373826a70---9217551620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/vuwuraketodexidubaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c897851f96---38284907527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/bosadadefusovuzuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f62b3a5deb69f5933945c469387f9325/lisowexorixatijujapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fdc4b9518---43299901844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azulejositurry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k1425bcacbgs9vf5co52ctr35/ranuxixogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifa-astrologie.de/userfiles/file/82614036979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/46783704831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df25b960d0c1b74abfdc68f07d0f6c8d/16637878817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d76a6349053581e54a367f55e1d9fcd/51627970513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc89e85965---tenaferozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/wazibefuxajotopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/vekaligoditejap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8927885e1d1e179e4e50aac9b498ef/ruxubelunexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737189588fa---295000581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/5781007802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/61862114645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caravanandre.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8f3b78591ba77f707441cb2b66a489d/xinalefomakelajul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d103bc13a9---49321117185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e49b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCB2 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 71622de9cd6d83e886bfa583c448782df95f7f3a48853a88ee5cc5f385cda9db
font_02_sfnt_off0001150f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1150F 16712 bytes
SHA-256: 5b184d3ebb9a4efc172f7e3832cccc43ff0d348f841dca681f2a588a855ed770