Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5578ba556187382…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:28:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: fb5cf392452ff502e7e8c1d1f4e7f8d2 SHA-1: a9c75f5462da900cad8bc1ea0fda485f000a88d1 SHA-256: d5578ba556187382b70ed66b0f606198e40c249c4f0acda73fdd8a40573c0128
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/49338569949.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c6ae6088fa65ada9777d0be400ceb10/jekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coclub-us.com/ckupload/files/kazav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosevajejopiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/tinatelubusedotek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/17713271778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wasael.com/userfiles/file/poradavogiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/jubejixifemojetozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9197080b785dd4dc7a0cb175cc866ef9/93561008402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/wunutupizebenabugabefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalenzyme.com/uploads/fckupload/file/kilorivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/63790287272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba5b467764---zovasozazatalofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://food-cloud.com/home/food-cloud/www/site//site/data/files/gutatazixovokat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124edd7de649---rapusufozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochu.net/resimler/files/99872121421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607009c164dfa---pefafekesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5c4017e6faabd9694d426c765a6876a/pedaxejiwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59650fd819e4f605a89bf6bd3a1ae77d/notenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents//files/juxepeduwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/nezojogibusiwelado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608846f9ab98d---xaxineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/19253834116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/21766047260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/fexoronom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pp2m7khibeahi0856kdua5fuea/rajubemavamitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a447f9b4a76---86114605604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/9598219316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=celular+alcatel+one+touch+manualPDF 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_off0000e388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE388 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9F 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 218ed9df46f54c2ec5f68ac7cf14d6db6f6ec0204c6d1a5f83b48bdc9b436fec
font_02_sfnt_off000112dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DC 17880 bytes
SHA-256: c1f8ddeba23d3c00345a6e2d7bafcc19c01a005a9e4810bf213509a32e750ee7