Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d569ecc637f2cc03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-06-23 05:18:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: cbfa968ed282721710ee9a901e8d6786 SHA-1: 23174f3039840391323f64d36b1efbec1736037b SHA-256: d569ecc637f2cc0302c7ec39b34b4ecd2e9b9758b8f1c74f7c72eb53bb0af5cc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely serving as a lure to download further payloads. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gershen+kaufman+shame+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4634c22daefad386f9b6b56e6a585dfe/vifevarigowevokijapixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/34045695487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/benamadisamerokutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/zomanuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ddd2e78510fb86fbc303f08663825b7/18707097407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef72058fb868b866ab6e10b33fbb2fb7/benug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoltysnieg.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/dazovejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/sijolutabibigafoxisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ae737561b---megoteda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b2263ba8d---48240023818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f52b51c0d---96884984202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toskov-yordanov.com/userfiles/file/wuxevilafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9fcd00538---rexugojukexazinijopil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanxuattrucauthangkinh.com/Images_upload/files/sizikumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6mc3q16lsqu6c5p8qjidoo896/ronalaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b843be8cc97---98736337532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC5 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 687f6bffb5073e3170c086bf3f7d8e01f6193c5cd25dee83bb626a54cdf03bb3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CB 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 7b803a5658a0d8f9c4611221d38d85fe38568465f02b319b825eb9b63b6e7a32