Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f557522338cde339…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 01:52:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c3c24f7ccf0fdd007178b04d9e7f523b SHA-1: 33a746639fb5d016aab39763dc6286ee73af6dc6 SHA-256: f557522338cde3391f9eea62926d8422107e7674bf7973ae3a3d2711473c3f62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, point to a pattern of hosting malicious files on various domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985e6558f40---99484684605.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90421931126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d3487910c---dijiwunowuboguwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonkoenigsmund.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c991354a8c---81810420750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/80940789862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098841f4aef2---52635039032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/178hn3m2ju6hkjr21r8kr56naf/fasokasopaseroper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/xaduxiwafovonuxijewuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wkd-uk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9bf1ff101eb0663d1c4cc162ffb2098/xofagoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theclubburger.com/uploads/files/latedegufemuzegizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/bafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2cd3ab4fe---dologurupadazebutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/33831157941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/39539482919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreiseengrundschule.de/files/jubejugulagovofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurpinar.com/img/userfiles/files/dasino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ede873f4a---78601410061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0529e8b58a---silizutizupijapajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfac4f88bfc---tuxodubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/weribad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/rufur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f761a1793e---wubetegipelosuxuxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/becbc3654a8e82c33219dcf03ce4c482/junanefewona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48684815b8---21502933796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fd1ddba94---jibamiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=paul+hollywood+white+loaf+recipePDF 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_off0000f449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF449 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 8873401de149af17793c6bc72961b1df8cbee537d2a8898a9366b7c8f0785260
font_01_sfnt_off00012185.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12185 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 03a288e5760a65bb8423812c4e3f3e981dc0463def4032c43162b5e9b1a097be
font_02_sfnt_off00013a73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1