Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a586c08fbbd904d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-08-12 01:58:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c66e84bea806857c34344aace67fc864 SHA-1: e4f230dd161631e1d94e1b1b2449e9eb18e5400f SHA-256: a586c08fbbd904d81b770d35b2314dbcc438ef731ca750f38c0d6e71efe4d288
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. These links are likely used to distribute phishing content or further malware stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=opinion+essay+sample PDF link annotation
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5daeb116bc---biposebogolatoloza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/83965350592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/vimodunosopapotuputazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/83683042660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc36bebfccb---zudele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fourseasons.events/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c850f0ecb25d122f54e31f98d4553721/juxaketotiwedisegiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/14375463063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d7d20259f---gijenuwesidikogovulekepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f6c37de7ddedc23660ea86704488d9/jepajike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077df45ad1c8---43423913864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f0664297590de0a3b05f6f1a38f080f/sogojipekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tipimigarak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xumadesunesitaraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160759e24e8da4---16459382209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105ff37ebd15---1375346369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609226291288e---99720885767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098606142512---tafosigunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavbyhes.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gotonaxowefikarodawusiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7597013b1---wajidela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajcsidavidfoto.com/_user/file/jazajuzasuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bednidhitraders.com/userfiles/file/xolilamowijitanasakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c09cf1d63f---zunirinimuzuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/waxuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b62158068e8d7f1561137d544a23c95/sakubuxoregufagojedunati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efdf68d884aa2c3a4b2dcb8ed84eb1be/53569951508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.com/files/usersfiles/files/37234335641.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_off00010ee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000126fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126FE 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 2477f1cb18fe74ec73d89ab4a6a45490d1dd4b27599a91ffc6ffd109b95f8365
font_02_sfnt_off00013e56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E56 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 0f7eed4c4b1222709bcb2ad32a5bc7028dd1b4ad0b57ba4429db2135294a9c38