Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e258f082aea2a412…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 06:04:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 744ae3e1f49ffe79f8705b146dd96bf8 SHA-1: d536bc640cc5b0f090cc18af328e152732e616fe SHA-256: e258f082aea2a412124801f82e22bf933a3db60c104430f23acc13999b64f10e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a distribution point for further malicious payloads or phishing attempts. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are strongly indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=words+to+describe+tone+quality
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160868439d875d---63281934108.pdf
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jq45d0b2a9vbnfrg99es6b3qup/fipopakewafatedusezo.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0e2tq3blcjs2be9bg0habt4bc/wopilujever.pdf
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f35b07f8c3---79320704543.pdf
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3029dhqkhnfnjdo4kehrj5fke7/30693176856.pdf
    • https://vasantviharproperties.com/userfiles/file/wozovanisuwu.pdf
    • http://perles-del-beya.com/userfiles/file/96362278422.pdf
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74sqk3vkrfo65c9uil313sap70/nusajixijab.pdf
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/71954719031.pdf
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/ruwaladulezekepewiro.pdf
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/xexameriletodadusebepe.pdf
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/161d6d14249d20d1f2f937a9b1fb40f5/setesatejufiwixuse.pdf
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fqurhgvfe1qb322muao94ik3c0/34806002758.pdf
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/57793521981.pdf
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160baf5a91d910---716464128.pdf
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/032p75udssts6rth6taq0ec147/niloduzageziwegaxagorad.pdf
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/69068249550.pdf
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3hf91aun9k4s8tvvf7pmnqrhn/tobamukijakegufena.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/75528069188.pdf
    • http://alliance-ic.ru/uploads/file/12206191107.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3881fe61169861f4af19388748640327/rawowotirawokizimekegux.pdf
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607432d23a27b---33478130865.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_off0000f73d.bin
e2b7127ef7b077ef18c00ee2f31b8a045fa5c6f2ce6d0ed8355e8da12d0b58f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73D 17960 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001261c.bin
1a3cf3f9a71163f5d448c2496009c1e0f44878380d410a383c6819af0f728844
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1261C 10856 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f1f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F1F 16792 bytes