Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a582e15f3a0b42ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-09 12:20:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b0e1e5b93636f2a9800061b393ccaca7 SHA-1: bec22c5bd3ac866a9e66f8da7c04cca860195558 SHA-256: a582e15f3a0b42acaed53013a170e092cbbc0d8cd93db704cec872d1a80938a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=use+inhumane+in+a+sentence PDF link annotation
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21q22eks1evvi4iavvrncv7ph3/xibumifol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99927031439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b97c0e78e1e---19894402235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6bbc5ed8f6---93069735857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campcolefamilyreunion.com/clients/82065/File/15677380030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a939640cbd3b94abf2806e1fd4b73751/visetenavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac9a7d4e9e16166abbfaae40e3bdd4d2/68455687313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6bcjt0es7qdpmpejsr7eju5h9/tilezeminatopujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88af1e48ee6643a09ded4a538ef79628/63174328034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a24a4042be3---vobotixukebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qapvgnjeoapntnmqfjulnmn5u3/38861629990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c54a8467e---soremovokoxudinekito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velo.hu/UserFiles//file/69516090067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0492bb0ba---83840406587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c67ec4adbf---5398036897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivekanandbawwa.com/userfiles/file/bikegazuragoxadupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1vt0h7rnvctr3fi1jh2akag3v6/revamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084132eb308d---detepadunirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab6ca8617a3284d1e8ced8267b8bd7e0/tixuwitukaxuzawirudag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b7e090748682b0f2f0b3f34a107a20/zewuwuxenavaritido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/jotidedepopesusevito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e07d9950be6c674cab6ac701354385cb/borugezovuxuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helmmsp.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc4692af2c804de3ebfbda243a099c86/zutupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/59859612411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54b15bfed5474b7952a0b0bb7995904f/jarikafavapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b73e2083d---tasokuvob.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_off0000f16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF16E 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 5cde7b7fb5a5b966566eed73b694ef1b4dc8f5dfcc0d589ac482817bea0db6e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001088f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120A1 17792 bytes
SHA-256: e08816aa3bd5cfa3b32b755e5645895cd8c93135e21a50aefc62ad320aa13c63

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