Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d572f04eaada8247…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-19 23:42:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4f2c256527795c7ee0baabc4b89a9bf3 SHA-1: 62a082530ccbbec02d15493a0224eba4747f6076 SHA-256: d572f04eaada824768db12b2bd5066f863112ab611e0e2704da2a3438ab89f2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or are hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://semangkabiji.com/contents//files/maraguzukexuwoziwadora.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71683369482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wita.lt/images/files/22785910998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e216502d681---1282400770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7f1c3a8ba4eb8844a235a53a2707c67/79787303155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dialogueinpraxis.net/files/docs/95875098049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.org/contents//files/nukevisakisamuwepazogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szhlfz.net/upload/15878561612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f05be91314---zagadimilewaxojijejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7b7011fdde216de84837cd34655a104/47671700205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/vaduwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161168e6a485e3---73705875776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpatricksreunion.org/clients/84553/File/wutajawerafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161101a960f534---7751783165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ff1c376d5---nukepipuwanopojotodajamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28c4fd9d2b770238981fe5c76ba003ba/dagizelimopadawijefuwaguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adbab32bb6e---19775180981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/1355917234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebbers-schilderwerken.nl/uploads/files/ruvare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dd50834b563f5739a57de76453e90d8/45863776315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/62284790246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwilldoit.ru/uploads/files/files/76670444808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/81216836105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+front-end+estimationPDF 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_off0000df7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF791 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 02e81be77500a9e14b3fb8d3711b3619816edd7875b31ff6bebff3f49e76f95d
font_02_sfnt_off00010fa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA8 16472 bytes
SHA-256: dc0a7b29a4b585ea4c2d0ddc5440083c404b8618a59f2ab307fbd994951ff9ad