Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e5526a41fbcd5b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-07-26 14:36:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6b1da7db13e498a3d2291f33d047edc1 SHA-1: c62668b3756cd443d7c6f76bab6969a5f50e5d5a SHA-256: 0e5526a41fbcd5b334ac77adde9dd2c3aa22f1350cbdb6e27ab8cb93c41a6b65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/053499fe4c12151ab39b3a7e57d03712/70821587037.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62744774e5---bexevizexazagalevusokasiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/82115431727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurier48.pl/files/userfiles/file/lisitetuvirawekiwukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070425f32cdc---lebizitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/11110440392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e2e51d68bf541e7151a7d6cbf7149b5/6174003045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d25eb74694---16078440797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/sezevesugixulerimidokuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2a8530c1f---gavoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c351e5330a45e1e21f0cc13561052d84/69789532146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/mafibela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d410d72f1fd---mowasegales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/wexowiwepanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2c27f78e4ebdfdf13eecd88f21ba75a/77627212108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/56763686002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/mapibabiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8be5389c0---sogolefaxuburajugofobesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4809122f7c---wikepelanijafuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f9d6bc2b270940b2bbf23cd61508202/14320749262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betaempire.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/bilojetakaveroxepoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807efdc5bd728f7d9ee98e437ac9d425/58484716876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=lrfd+tunnel+specificationsPDF 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_off0000deef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEEF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f706.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF706 10668 bytes
SHA-256: d04e34267756f0ff49715ebc6bbabaa9778f1be5d109bc363f13a0d1fbb9e6b9
font_02_sfnt_off00010f84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F84 16208 bytes
SHA-256: 13a7bf5b49ec54198fa174606dce240bc52927b6cafaf32b2061bef04c0232a1

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