Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0516d19d94a1c4ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-06-02 14:04:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f8dafaff342f630375a30d61dcac014a SHA-1: 49cb0c5d3f5a215f3059a4149451a07fd1d4ee39 SHA-256: 0516d19d94a1c4ee5ec15409160874daeb0842bbaea68d8abf77a65ca6fbc039
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a disguised 'employee performance appraisal form template doc', a common pretext for phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2be6525e3e1be793faa62db8b7716ff0/71115484431.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a4395876c---35031964250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condicionamentofisico.com/arquivos/file/tonewubesefipofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9764cd97478d2b882f73f9053da58a2c/sulovinezawamogisale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/bijavazadizuduvuzufujaruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsl0reh5523gg6linq537kj6tg/tediwevexupijivowoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bi4e4beqms32ek65meet9qhos0/ruvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d58e58fd50---doregovenegafemawadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb8d1c1273---sitazetewimufafatosujato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/5482590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d14711d7e0---wabaxagipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokumsuzgec.com/userfiles/files/1901563750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096818d761ea---sosazawiradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cf51a3b9f---68939309835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/38599338207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60a3f6e122acb70be051f2cf60a46bbb/rirazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607413309f95b---ramexulabuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=employee+performance+appraisal+form+template+docPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f52e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF52E 5360 bytes
SHA-256: bcfd4842a3ddbfaea0217a00334c0e29bc70fefe18991b8c08c9c2750a7e9eb7
font_01_sfnt_off0001075c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1075C 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 41a586f64ac700d4504df5c6907efc250b756b0778b1ddebd1d35eeca104815b