Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c594b05781645576…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-07-31 11:06:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cf3de6bdc9a34731baf08b8d598c99ed SHA-1: 50c13f8990506aebcb421fd818a099579224b2a1 SHA-256: c594b057816455760226ad08380e794c8bb69c8598d810497dcbd8db4592f400
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a secondary payload. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+usps+not+updating+tracking+information PDF link annotation
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/xavigemigawejimamafuzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1348255c1---85861425734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/lisefuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/74266104567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/kelupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowator-zpu.pl/userfiles/file/jalutoveximaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/82684781916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/48577810051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/51255226308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7297dac906---degadubobisiburusopovof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609420519bae1---tageza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b3b259462c---rinilezogogekunuvodeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/94680667724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digbijoynath.in/iisc/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/wejunodapiliwasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l77dpmcu367k1brv593dpk7aq8/selosaniwifili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721c4184dca---gofejuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6b9b5a8adf---goxawefasoluxetid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760dd988131---35137683589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/41689532490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbfa67b173---nitodarisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160971eb16d44d---wosotore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dcebfe4fbccec8372eecf89c1982f47/4059682735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/50461489359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a2ee39d4c---bajijules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/vuvosejovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb1528cedb---noxeforuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://closehorses.com/userfiles/file/2756861355.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_off0001173d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1173D 17228 bytes
SHA-256: b096c9674848806a08d70a2285e32f6aa281dc7e583b866f23c4d15207a28ec0
font_01_sfnt_off00014454.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14454 11188 bytes
SHA-256: 247679456073112f01a40d689e880bdbfaaaf86daa2fd12782a83801ab02bb23
font_02_sfnt_off00015e30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E30 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1