Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c561c64bffc82420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-29 22:09:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5b2b5aa0c2e79f913ed397743199fea3 SHA-1: 9a5fa4ce11d71839ff4568da42c57d50471b1c1d SHA-256: c561c64bffc82420efa0cd07dc5b8229d8c15e07ca23485234843b6fb6ec5f1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware delivery campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://thietbiotoviet.com/Images_upload/files/17915133536.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sun-green.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42075445060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c04703d4b51---duxugaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southport1969.com/clients/861680/File/44562081054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgemfoco.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88922656528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1622884040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/re8tp57e50of1ib98m8344m453/51091016283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1fd0aabbe3590897cce409d25eff62/gasipuputiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57205409600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/go9fbmjkq60pv2l8p4354fjh4r/jasagulaloravukutetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/jazowonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vili-al.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/42480079057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/geginedixunetunekanur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49da67795c---24578866390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/23325374441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4ae2ec030c7117354de48f63af861fc/39595889166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents//files/46429937851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00cbc0e6ffc91bfea59024e81b9c4780/gikowoxazokerararin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fef8a726cf5cd2fe6c0494567d84c37/72867917278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/llg8ac2n582mhah90gaqcmvrl2/xisowuvotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/ronupibabipubizusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608014afb160d---lonetugamuzigimozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721d7901dd1---nutezemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/57942291358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf2739c796---46543173638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+in+slope+intercept+form+with+one+pointPDF 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_off0000ed08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED08 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001051f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1051F 10660 bytes
SHA-256: b70e86b0f797b1b3bc09e78806130ef1695b678ba41116d5fe9e61d8eece709e
font_02_sfnt_off00011d55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D55 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 1837b19b8bc18b4edc976d4a95790c5c57c1cbf6ed14527765d60997e269f38d