Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9580a322fd29bca2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-23 15:26:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bcd5455c5a8558bb45dc29f818fbf24b SHA-1: 5d7a68293e7e761ee75678d4a97212fd3271fca2 SHA-256: 9580a322fd29bca2eaaf08efe6fc41fff838a61efcd151c23397ac5f6616fe28
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This pattern suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or a malware download. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f88360aaf17---99485110520.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/48069681608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/mivubuzewopekipitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75a4e946d7---xivajuxudaninepulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4c5ab0db2---32295087949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27a8b1beb1---59735597272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.romanschatztruhe.de/img/files/60741756091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/26334363913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3f083db86ecaf8445b7c1cb09cfbdc5/6752038309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/favorumunelobufitumijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/40032347484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a38ffbd107---55323678261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongduong.net/Images_upload/files/65893881154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608271fd7fde6---jopaviwakuzagalakovipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210524041551169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/5538255424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gugupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runningrhinelanderrabbitry.com/clients/875187/File/nasane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hifi-markt.eu/kunden/kronhardt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vugimagoropaxozowasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-domrep.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86813661516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/vofozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taskentcompany.com/userfiles/file/2579019990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4219a528b22972f6a7867c8b74813e41/87344934639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=us+computer+emergency+readiness+teamPDF 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_off0000ec8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8B 11032 bytes
SHA-256: ab88f7b6cd8cb92be593827b59ee90728350ac940f7d2455ac09e27a289dbf2e
font_01_sfnt_off00010608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10608 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E1A 16536 bytes
SHA-256: f9d87c4b941bfe4627ae746758cca4e0ec650d35ced272c8f52375b64cb7a728