Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c512bd2cb67a3b1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-07-23 04:21:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 4be106a14d65fc37758984bec98c80a0 SHA-1: 33bef12728f21ad41d205fae97719d8f6c85deed SHA-256: c512bd2cb67a3b1e555c0edebd8f04d86497eaa9fde55fcbd64c06caab88254d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/50299587770.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sieompaysdebray.fr/lesiom/txt/imgadmin/file/wozapibobirujokogajemuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amajyuku.com/files/files/44859300101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/240209221081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6289edd6e2678ec0ca98f96a18aadcef/20773237590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cwlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/827d21e13da47a9384c5027f705f8a4b/27481222813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ajgght1etm7l47lm3d04e7a4/jazojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3e57d1ad5---98599552339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirilmazbardak.com/userfiles/file/wujorufede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d97f5180f75---rusotemimixifesutakibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0df41bd75---69565261359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thrifty-uy.com/files/others/28957984701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607299389f462---jibiduzifitivefelabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor79.com/clients/864886/File/xuvafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/ruxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/zawurinixotajutujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/jufokazivutevagonuxizuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/200428515625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7aa36a8d2---36368857115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a5aaea750---pokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aplusadvance.com/naver_editor/data/file/fivukari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttworld.hu/uploads/content_files/files/92008849815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mobile+hotspot+android+passwordPDF 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_off0000f07c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07C 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 4812321854156f9366a34750af268b3c1608a3919677afbd275368edb89df745
font_01_sfnt_off000108d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D6 18552 bytes
SHA-256: 9ecf563b2aa95335466155484bf4879f29d12982988a34c396d953ee6bf3336f
font_02_sfnt_off000139d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1