Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c500268cc77ea965…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:51:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2a2f4697ca157c019b102572413dedd9 SHA-1: 81520d13a09bfcdca937543976643fbd002f11c9 SHA-256: c500268cc77ea9651e18877089ae60a2bf84cc97ece589a8fe58d20b530bbb87
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853a39bbdb4---70299269963.pdf
    • http://ctkupavna.ru/upload/file/34740642375.pdf
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/6743442286.pdf
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/84842111596.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0c9fd686e---xalafu.pdf
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/629e59fefda7f61c1652d86d3b07cc59/46818626069.pdf
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdf4e73228---23232604143.pdf
    • http://petraifevronii.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42863260607.pdf
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/wajubepugevobivokofi.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa5bebe3333---12137580899.pdf
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f18b3f38b7---43233992764.pdf
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/rokelikafumorozezakavox.pdf
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7678528ed48171b225c38197c1d8e11/xatifesegib.pdf
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c6a8da4eb314e00e1c32df6e69e179e/22095761394.pdf
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfba9f93859c756d76cb32eb8a0ed214/garoxojaz.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd3e6de9acadadfac68ca9b6130a7505/35967350378.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=at+home+dog+grooming+near+me
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f04b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF04B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001085d.bin
9e5cc15353141bec9706d6a32253b41f67749d8bb65bf4346f182060529dae09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1085D 16552 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001322d.bin
d46bbd258b6be980323dd08eadc300b40dc2dc3ed1e11ecb109014901a209373
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1322D 10464 bytes