Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c557bdfd742f62bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 14:05:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3e3adaa3642b03c0e87ef91254b3776b SHA-1: 108f40255ac36eadb13fccf12a11a37ac82849be SHA-256: c557bdfd742f62bfa381b0e3dc39417b9a34c711ed335f5c75a1c5fdb1c9c222
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=seamus+heaney+the+cure+at+troy+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec2331ca3f65f31e97ec5b241e88592/ziwodesugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roxburyhs1987.com/clients/63080/File/98475511457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dd07c52155a86179b0419681614f41d/rumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b140e11e9---lutukivasovuferudadumigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf81f88fcfb---wawesudujasisujabubesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e87db63866---sakena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e322d4a96---82417370100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/14576322437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210603142034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/13340652947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31086947533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7427019e9d---72270491217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/709329638cbe2460ec0cb9fca510135a/49427484930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe6f855abe---17488852519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4524959370---46768739516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39dm1of06ln5rsnr09qui66c5a/84621621650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klubkanine.com/home/klub/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1388284297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/lakepodosuxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/sasodasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df90cb836f---vugelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8382d94d3f---73812102437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/nininum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audit-advisers.com/userfiles/file/nemuzipibiloduge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e53045dc95---65639743655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9fc66caab9a7809c4fa9aa2d88b5cbd/31193155132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/pekosa.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_off00011a44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A44 16576 bytes
SHA-256: ec5f626c5d71f762a8400765e32df7ba275933601e20fb7ffdaaa9a1d700a86b
font_01_sfnt_off00014555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14555 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015d6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D6C 11036 bytes
SHA-256: c2271db17c7bb094699e3ab9bcf2e86bc19c5a058e30a4a9952d04fd00db3db1