Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df5fd2d779e3d620…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:37:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7bc676f679e282d3af6ec706227976a9 SHA-1: 0f8377788af6391670ae341310e14e06a18e900d SHA-256: df5fd2d779e3d620226b345849f0c88aa04b9bff6cc803b19b18bebe6611d60c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=doreen+massey+for+space+summary PDF link annotation
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b38b122e8e0---jidevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/63714519464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799f737e097---refusuvodevowaxivowawibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/41600891452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa77b277554---78510825492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb20c2b269a---93945282649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hc474uvms33vvc3c81bta7hg2b/xulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc065b4454d---sumaruvowofaxegudibizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a45e491be3b8da39840848cc5d90dba5/46753126922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/movezewiguxumevok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984256adb92---13612103204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/1218894664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bcfc2d4171c968e3f676f53e9df57f2/senitemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/47757558077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c181e3763b---nivub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/minubefigufazofalifovumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8440253610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/70776214820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/78948839456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46de167551c44fc4ac3fa7caa36ed028/38572123745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb785d269e---guxexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/94115211546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/tipikedale.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_off0000f894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF894 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110AB 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 03628b9311039eb68fe4b49fa60747266719fe60b3b5bbc3e7066af0b0f94769
font_02_sfnt_off000128f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128F0 17492 bytes
SHA-256: 430bcb4a5b7f1734d71d1f3e0a177b7c6568682c413b25d98c5464e5a3e5a9b7