Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 590edf1dd381bc60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 12:14:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: adc73d417dd75d7c4d3d456562c593b6 SHA-1: 7d29867d708d422bb407a743bbda279b631ed4e8 SHA-256: 590edf1dd381bc6058a568c349138963c53f196dcebed99fac1a05d3d270e13b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835bff5924a---vibixexulapipoximunas.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/wudaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ganetabololamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d8ec6fee6---53492087559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbi17dch75ago1cotnt6mi2ql3/seradodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c7fea1650---sakasagezemelutuzuribevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9d470cc89---68608420184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98a239e87466cd34e558cd6c1cce51d5/xagif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/1357557452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983100dd9dd---guvakinuvizivejekevajuwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/75701869021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160939e01ce6ba---jumameworenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77b254c49b9c7147783ef39882e02db7/55615508047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c57bb90792---nofira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/4185550912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/xazubudanuranefuxubazule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/23226366608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/46915636076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/23527560694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6esaui1fjkric1fknnd1iv2jli/jenadatuwodejudateluwezaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/vazenobifetiwug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/52404615224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65p65j8ripggfl24l6vpndbadv/32850266709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/82996859743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=suspension+system+in+automobile+pdf+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082608e16f3c---dajavufiwuvix.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_off0000c581.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC581 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD98 11176 bytes
SHA-256: dac9b34bf231a5ce36587b447966fccddd115cf8a314a81cd1f630a65784d9a2
font_02_sfnt_off0000f78a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF78A 17144 bytes
SHA-256: 2fce2182d1532a68590077f8db0202805f7e22846eaf9ba56f479f3f1ccc1fdd