Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e576e63e663c2273…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:50:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ae6bf46d3081305b70d0a3dddd53e7d3 SHA-1: fec8599d0bd967585b752e82b1c3047c0de945ce SHA-256: e576e63e663c22733d34f2e68c78557931e62ec660b0bf03025c860985515efd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The embedded URLs are designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e551d003e---jijinobubujijagitaxefir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/folido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/21753214192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://herfection.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210624151707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f5616e197eaa3b0cef1a02a50345cd6/32551977063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9q35vqc3do1p2o56f2mqddv186/3235032690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0cd77515b---vinokixibowilabiwijosuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15lptk2e1i8r772g3499smilt3/tekol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/62882626763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce851a95863797c12e6a491015df0ea6/fedenudegelifikowofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/5609071940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb243953c3---liwijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608857fc44c5e---jijukajigitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/lusarak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9657662d6c---xixawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bea319deec---rufinotiwowibalasaseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/gogunibegazuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/71936036540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a5is3mi9ooi53h57lf4jh8tsl/rupawema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/ninalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bajajsports.com/userfiles/file/6699536065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/16742624513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/16804957842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=newton%27s+second+law+forcePDF 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_off0000ee4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001065f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1065F 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 3b3689c2d6d1a1689d73521928e626e73a3f7902552c3d501744e45a2d1cf5b8
font_02_sfnt_off0001355d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1355D 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 1e74264eb237d5ae2a4bccfe6bd196ac674161527acd73d909872c40ee37b470