Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e562e295c0acd725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 945c9e861575fc5cd2c9b395486e4fdc SHA-1: 5f6f50670f1fae9b5007441a364d16eb26d897ec SHA-256: e562e295c0acd72500023fb8b8a90bac8e793faf786e60a5b0c1195d6ecfe16b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics reinforces this, as does the embedded URL heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/43057639255.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://massimoandyuethui.com/clients/69227/File/fikekedugozegekeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06bd0d9961---vigadowejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dd48f017daadfa8f100c388d0779152/xokafazomimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/ronunekuvopuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0fabf3f16---26721393118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/80133229944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/71164433385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083088d0f847---vunamebekumivifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/nanumates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4abdaf7ed1474f0d4b76db8e06afcca6/70117363610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16964eeb61---99858116481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruntbudowa.pl/files/file/49467396603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c47827828---91042797640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/gitom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/kifibipowanij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f121779d02acba9f795764c42ffb4d7f/49602500674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/zekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i67qq213j83jm4ojio1h40dpv3/vujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/nojupoganim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u94p41sbkuq1fq375opqsp63nk/37040096492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f9c29efd2---desefajunojelubawelaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004b58d1ae5c3cdf01701ca3df9c7d8c/zivavawujodudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f558c4456---danaxovozivaxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f75772bba8b02949ec5ea8d50d964e3/70530745915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.info/contents//files/repavabifijaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/18630089030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=linear+regression+imagesPDF link annotation
    • 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
stream_002_off00010c83.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x10C83 10264 bytes
SHA-256: c93d7e3f82823a2abb6a021dcfbedef7588279b14d1a20afb7d2c0173759f7e4
font_01_sfnt_off00012386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12386 17820 bytes
SHA-256: bc8b19b255be45bad9e0a440a112d650d2b12a6a23574f45d8dbf35d09a9048d
font_02_sfnt_off00015308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15308 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1