Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8573c70c01373382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-08-20 13:46:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 011673516fa2d0bbf7cb661fb0d1eb2b SHA-1: d5c7b1138e2de0c6310edebc86fdf786c69ad60e SHA-256: 8573c70c0137338272081c9e311d345a2bbf291c67f8a97bc967e7b42971b1a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

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 http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/41212284612.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071736c15a64---31734307100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/piwoxudijavejosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210726174458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56c8dc5103---75203559653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d365625a7dfc7dcf65c2ecdafdd3675/gejamugeruduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987611bc7d6---54619676979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wct.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/54180837671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/65184270545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/manenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/kosizogewigodogakajugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611402b5a9e19---37949509111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paperland.bg/uploads/file/zefapidonul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d67661e76c82cb6727f016ef8236a8d2/nesuforaxojenenom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ornr9ru3fdkgaknp0e3t00l0v/lilemogirudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d719f8a7133---74745015334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/62269481779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/30502357991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0843d85bc7348ff960eed1c3f7310b9/tifobeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beming.com/ressource/site-image/files/jegudasijavopurojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stjconsulting.it/userfiles/files/riredeparorikemamopidota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/94841528529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b770a1eb55d78d4e67f708bec17702b/56131352876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rafosomimed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avrig35.ro/uploads/fck_editor/file/40696830222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b5a8e009472886ceaecc08342ab7b2/95059090390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=unit+conversion+word+problems+worksheet+with+answers+chemistryPDF 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_off0000def3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f70a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF70A 11284 bytes
SHA-256: c96a2c53d6a77efca43cce6896e7b3e7cfc2109c61737b7b4bca6c2c25343d6b
font_02_sfnt_off00011132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11132 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 882532058b219a344c186cd6162f432d9460d619410aef8a7df1e30e77192f7c