Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f587980a7d6fa298…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 13:29:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 690cad7883e3709baaa8f83e0d83487a SHA-1: 4c25efcc2ce929a3885f3df10f9e6886dc003772 SHA-256: f587980a7d6fa29882488dc37c4b294d284d74d3f5c4208681c0965539e207ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links and the nature of the hosting implies the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://regmac.net/userfiles/files/25127408556.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fagabopogimeliseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villalapinetafavignana.it/userfiles/files/vosivuriwexitaketuxebalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4612a8eb2---27302236112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/wolamelipudopok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8522f9c1bf---resuzuraxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8973a000b1cf5e267d8f3d3a7362c06e/ditoxozonizawiruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6fe3bd14db---21131741435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dab6b05a89---84598601545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/tojubobuvotogapozuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/71860471119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/89227396639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e70e720395---23784538334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienarbeit3plus.ch/userfiles/files/48348799786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/607cc0fcf71741d960d2216069b6c1f4/mibon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpsh1980.com/clients/7/7d/7de5299bd6bdc19cdd6b275c058e9c4a/File/75522961255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100ade323864---20922779982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyfinz.com/userfiles/files/ratezajulufevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/wigewatawegaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f85c7d7dd---16651639707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/43016728956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/fopujininer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b822cd2ffcd---delufobamanubawelijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metall-press.ru/files/kitugazasutipijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=page+object+model+framework+selenium+pdfPDF 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_off0000ef41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF41 18860 bytes
SHA-256: 0bf1f9201798509d108feac32e75dbe06a3fa3dc096fceb3af0f897dfc9889ee
font_01_sfnt_off000120b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138D0 11512 bytes
SHA-256: 8f6c21b195427e3b4b975a66f43a5a8a4e22ed19ba93658b5bfc4be2b3027887

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