Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c582b1269de2eb20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:04:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c2a6cd06cce94621f4fd688f9c834bed SHA-1: 0c4fbd6a7a484eb2d55aba0652f03f4db668d367 SHA-256: c582b1269de2eb2091d55d7c958df706345fa4f561645e0cd7e79caafe467507
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The embedded URLs and the heuristic findings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087bb5de1168---bujokeroril.pdf
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/67044835477.pdf
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfd738d670---61166320178.pdf
    • http://www.florentmaussion.net/userfiles/File/tezotuvafemewopaduzapijub.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d107a371f228bce9017388738fdd0394/29489956419.pdf
    • http://www.evisiontiendaonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26032345944.pdf
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/gimogakuletoneduxab.pdf
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/dimapanidigefolitevujiv.pdf
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/24383261647.pdf
    • https://vietfun.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbhn5u9nbcjvb7vkjb52kcs6ju/famis.pdf
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c603be2f387---94384894982.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b898aac2bd---99064437147.pdf
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d616ef5747b4eba421d224a7f3828441/madusudul.pdf
    • http://agriturismofattorialucciano.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zasixisebebopako.pdf
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ca1f27e76---59599338770.pdf
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6850980b8---66459528429.pdf
    • http://pomodorolennep.de/gfx/userfiles/files/bogasusemik.pdf
    • http://sibservis.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jojiduredeleje.pdf
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cuuq5h0n3qj2t1fme9cc5sjhnk/balumupadotigapizo.pdf
    • https://sankohomestay.com/userfiles/files/safuwapovokumazevibotisa.pdf
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/589ba03fed7be4196433bc75632ca95c/46580169919.pdf
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866c50afb81---25371342084.pdf
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/31609046388.pdf
    • https://mednet.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/76617276642.pdf
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd19fc9c0a---75585313800.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=best+app+to+convert+pdf+to+word
    • 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_off0000d4f2.bin
df0f6aef1bacd9f00a7586764d2e2f6957f77b562838ab6dd3df85afddc9cc1d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F2 10680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000edb6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000105c8.bin
c2ce5798f77f72d77c4750d2e2775c1ea0a377e5541a19e7e62da786c1f9fd32
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C8 16536 bytes