Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df578a7e20905a05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:56:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7ad53ffd7b11e695835a62184fdf27b2 SHA-1: c22ca2862009294293476d1e13e823084cf25ad9 SHA-256: df578a7e20905a05d5516ff95b5b3108d043c6b7f99277fd4bb3ebfd5247094b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Several extracted URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The PDF structure itself, while not containing readable text, is associated with external links that are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+amylase+enzyme PDF link annotation
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fa2c7c9f6---jetovoguzemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/54350059431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e190ef3e7---kegapuruximopafukeviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0f140039f5eadb8ddf71e535df9d366/43073200285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b70e85e8d17---doposul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/dulijedofigejerolazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afosduak8qkmptos1v8f4rvhk3/fuvubuzagisobesirikoxobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43307b5429---mezilezopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93641de66e---mivojatomexinotomomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecf2oqs06g8dd165v453n5m4sa/lojokamivugepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b341e12d7f6df70ab84755655ad80a99/89793940109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d88a30222d4cb7b32297fefec676bd35/80472458986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/36970252223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/lepatolevovamivezeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f6a9abc6a---25940249345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/52367707141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsl8orkk12al36qc1q6jv88hi4/57259005723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/tedoxonilurimefofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b56f82407ad10a2dd3b51c8ba7ad7311/mezajikajaxozodatebogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec6a20c4f6a339895fa6cc1a642ab5f6/23964258288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g3t4bb5pt58bagmcop8hnuu1p1/xoxenekofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e950c8dcdd11046236c7d9f136c432f4/75744050184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982b23933f8---44789598376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dostavkaturov.ru/files/file/6671425327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p7vodjl6ea370a4714p866g59/51230462279.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_off000154de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154DE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00016cf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CF0 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 68d9d05e69151bb9759919327354f2a2937118b08c51d5b8f42256844a9e74c7
font_02_sfnt_off00019ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19AD8 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 3f945f03fca290e0c44939e256dc4512bcf7182b5377d3fd8034c1eca188aa4d