Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc5564f4945202d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-06-25 12:28:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: bcb1c2517dcdaaa41e3eb90c1d5d8067 SHA-1: 079ac3a9a122e91a3005c5f3cea94b3eba7dddda SHA-256: dc5564f4945202d2b8324880e81e91e2868af64d3cdac9e2de797039edb0a362
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a PDF link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful destinations. The presence of numerous unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a47a50239---71684356035.pdf
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b4fdd29a226288315a550a96b07d6f1/79984343094.pdf
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/foladodosajeduxodila.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kh38iihnd10j87024v3q8200ku/jenunevuza.pdf
    • https://aspirans.com/files/file/susur.pdf
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5daf90ccdd---22973830957.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e5d49c8d03308b2a916694539ab5e1/88760335115.pdf
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/texebosipanogu.pdf
    • https://varbackaforskola.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiruwen.pdf
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce7f97ebf2da52a5ad136d144c03ef2a/maduput.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8rro9rbh1vhgcklcb383hkoe8/85381277247.pdf
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098414da96f2---rodagoli.pdf
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/vetirorobezedikosepa.pdf
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f227251064---84980229641.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42db7957fd---govuku.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e94a928d28---favaravula.pdf
    • https://www.kcequipment.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f4052d04285b36475b609b53620343a/77216440185.pdf
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9d02465eb---nigavatajab.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=caltrans+surveys+manual
    • 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_off0000b643.bin
9eb0aebc83471d419903a4ed0f0d503f1861383cf4c1cd47a1c0f55e473fd909
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB643 16012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfac.bin
72d8459b59bb0db91d829ca87c7f0fcd5ea9db7e9416acd3029b0c8b3a44b783
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFAC 10368 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f730.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF730 16792 bytes