Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e568cfa13f5bce57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

136.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fdcf27428a9574f8c7efd90c287eb3b7 SHA-1: 293b399550f5e1955077da5ae538490291f08384 SHA-256: e568cfa13f5bce57981ba55f651760fd9a48bc3088898d9b5bc54c128777a4f8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9921

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://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1aa392950c---49884632673.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/tadisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b457f3ae42b---58050979063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11f12e2bf1---7539393354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606caaaa71d9c---98617982304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ordinate-ltd.com/file_media/file_image/file/86201071745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/79137095556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27091497472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18562633771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7jqdou266e6obeoh8ki2909s2/88994600080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edbf3b9c96d2b3c3265ceb075625b815/78541931936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99105655498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb858d5036---46202233581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/48974916843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/namotetikegukiguzatel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5748c7b2b5---4906348073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/kiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f0bc863a7ba4aa823fd23a9daa30b5d/95672171224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/75763181565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b4842d65e---tejatezamijiranofirimuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/45505867399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/558aaaafbba4506f7f3fb4a0c318a742/70625819795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a72b7abd76---vadejowizesujuwedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=password+clues+answersPDF 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
font_00_sfnt_off0001ae64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AE64 22304 bytes
SHA-256: 13d82936e3cdf94df0a712b3aff14a5e00bc3d0aaedb9f9bcbe65f625e285d41
font_01_sfnt_off0001e4ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E4EF 10360 bytes
SHA-256: a48f4c70025166ffee8744142c775988fc6679ac5b3b58f4aed45d0328fb7953
font_02_sfnt_off0001fc93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FC93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1