Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df98b5a5cd2e46c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:41:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2256fe47c47050da3bcfd1532d4e0749 SHA-1: 1d3727e9dff9ffd6c1923a99b22efd4d4c5d9f72 SHA-256: df98b5a5cd2e46c5c96dddb4f100cdd455e16b7a772e8161dcdf2134b3b0c3df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+kind+of+bugs+do+lizards+eat
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/jewizipelosu.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3817363f243305abb5f85d5af13b0474/87947123376.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/jigugu.pdf
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d4ac06ed4---77985002978.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5c53267a63---serakukigilewewufulijo.pdf
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/kewibuburovosevovarorupe.pdf
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/30388914360.pdf
    • https://ahha.az/userfiles/file/73250597270.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa51034fb4---viweve.pdf
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kj16cq9hg5cogtend6f4pqumd3/papekuzuxedetisijurevavi.pdf
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/97694592522.pdf
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/vazabelevogejetulaseburit.pdf
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/44905070758.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbbd6f35d3---98538854050.pdf
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bd20289817a3aa7246e99209d5eca4f/81516991445.pdf
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/20764757528.pdf
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202106020144406110.pdf
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fbaf9ddfec---45100002565.pdf
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siguwe.pdf
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/modasogop.pdf
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/27035382985.pdf
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/9018377334.pdf
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/99385977586.pdf
    • 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_off0000e584.bin
5b36a898e6b0d515969947221771a34df0b9a34538954b38c5dfbb5004341df6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE584 16080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ee9.bin
bc393080b0e5b574fc1daf686ebb4b9699e314d4982214fd4bf82cff83d4bc6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE9 11020 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001284c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1284C 16792 bytes