Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e5f12f917bbc7a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 15:46:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 44ec5ab3872c062a7a2fc93f3b7f2f64 SHA-1: 109cf0f08aa46d33a96835857ee3b9965665801d SHA-256: 0e5f12f917bbc7a9928f3d929f8b95150c0de283e26a24c6c02a22c3315d7e74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, designed to lure users into downloading files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links to potentially compromised upload directories suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f74a77ae1f---11832738625.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/pilijigagolenuref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/divogamogasasetutomomus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160779429dba47---kigef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c95f34dc733---48367914088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8fe67d7e5---85752320413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/palezujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/zoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/31100474894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/jesemigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca25f0a90e42c3a96e175984f19fdd7/55141379170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/18797939555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3vqaonqt4q711otho2shk8gu00/takamaruvegomejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b9e97215d97503b17407c8738b4d1c6/safidevipurapenadamude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/xitikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/mebofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73092a03ade8259db742d606b78c7a2a/78262155022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4du85g054kjhphkiqbl3dra1m3/fitogerofipububomar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/masonutelarizojovebona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8e22b0a955b39ba545f675806397c2/8277564908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901745b9909---buwowifiwugeseporowane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=download+gta+v5+for+androidPDF 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_off0000f58f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010da1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA1 17372 bytes
SHA-256: c9cc558b24688fba650a6c6ccde6ff97266a6cce8ecc3db4a175c5a9002c6be2
font_02_sfnt_off00013a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A60 10516 bytes
SHA-256: bf3f5779adbe71f7899635d827ed641835a5677ae8d34a8afc67f4dccda869d3