Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 591d605e149474e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:42:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a505e8c3d8327c807c3bdae28b189c72 SHA-1: 119eba2b8eec8d84ee5aab073cc85b338625e6d7 SHA-256: 591d605e149474e86e5aec986c80b7329b2b7e0926275f9090cba95a053e3200
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ps4+minecraft+jungle+seed PDF link annotation
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607089255be71---poxulixolowojawujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de4c3b381d16246ed5386770b89a2070/28444308616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d13b17e936aefe996cfa3d92f951613/83520567393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a992541d1ed---33989033854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948acaaf616---nipekozakararozizadup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084de0534ce6---pofosuritedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c875e1fed91ac8ee053f86428be06e/5505032454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://revucue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6963446347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwaywest1974.com/clients/861606/File/nuxerizapadokutozupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/60139204047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fcpp3llacj9debdh30gmjs6ag/xirezalovotiguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelrefah4ter.ir/basefile/hotelrefah4terir/files/terin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9d3b1989fb---jolife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e4811ab59cee92c6e2c271b08eed084/lizawapegari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/60825533040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607210f72606f---bugoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sage-chem.com/image/files/20210613_150543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ff07d42fe0d69808fea908ea144ef42/tukiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/jozabaremesomutobig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/95625098180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivieahk.com/clients/5/51/51325344bd1517f257d6959d5350918e/File/91872492211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/55991952878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rf7huef4i96uln9ftmaa8u325/2936659809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/tikadorebevukirimivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/376a5d45ef4f127dd805eda464404e6c/zopekebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibconsulting.it/userfiles/files/nupizojavajapof.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_off0000ea7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA7A 16632 bytes
SHA-256: c35a2f74c0fe97ee2f85bd20648daaae29157a16c0728f6c553bfaff5b52c255
font_01_sfnt_off000115bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115BB 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 04c582f78a07765def603b738cdf82032b2502b4fa5a24221c5c5360b4bfc021
font_02_sfnt_off00012f17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1