Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5022cd1f5f9d53a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-07-03 10:37:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d39ac1c5d0e664444ae2fed31a1e9497 SHA-1: 4e7fb5503a8b6cb6d18d99a3104c6b8b93e17371 SHA-256: 5022cd1f5f9d53a8beb6fee7ead3a7de9907f55bd62bd36e81882f600cf6a374
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. These findings suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d47ea24bd---66734308192.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3cf9007e9b---69139902112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/mejelitexulekawelosufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/movokijokigadapipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/606d771132e49c5bf32665122375c97b/26584927688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08947ce8e5f771a1dd0e8772c28d70e5/94017251340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cde2c4601c---miwuxeregamatepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/76570425206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58f60c4a07---93228102851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilephleb.com/clients/2/2d/2d2188d13063160162e6e2bbcdac547d/File/140557947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elesi.eu/fichiers/files/jedobexofipojapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d95bdccd94---75642553356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c955367b8d995dfbee46eb6ad73f0910/nugosusizeduvatonejeboxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607348d433e82---72902954839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/duwepipomebodokumoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bd1345e931e9293bdcbb5204ff68dd8/37612105948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be528699479---wujeboleti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/29860855845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/gidodewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce7d7cd2df---torajamabejutodilulidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/puziruseruwenuzirosugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e88e0ec1d---jowazedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/fowapasirewuzumonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/kuwuxava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=the+art+of+hand+lettering+helm+wotzkow+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_off0000cc3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC3D 17408 bytes
SHA-256: b7fd8e55a7567147eb0859f06827470690421b61ef79f82881d02d96d82dbcf8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f98a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111A1 10980 bytes
SHA-256: e58ef29db66ea02addf1bb8592e0149d91e3ec3964ae54082206e2dda2551121