Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5076f4569b0c2051…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:22:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 07b02dd1013bbc631476d06e8c9e7bda SHA-1: c7fb30b3ed33efc5f0e40000dcb5e1afa1f139dc SHA-256: 5076f4569b0c205100755e37bd6932645f5e6e97f33d0fa2af9213479f2843e1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' confirms links to compromised CMS upload storage. ClamAV also detected this as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. These findings suggest the document's primary purpose is to direct users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3s5s5sokagrh7n75kavic3hca/govopufebezem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/gegaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160704fac846e8---gopugotiritesipikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/xabozupekitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb4196faa5---gelerofuzunudijujegapewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4619e66d46---manusugalejana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0fcd7252076acf610948a09fdfa97bc/pazozigixetewotasanepuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35952ced4f06083c13849816bb4d9a42/wegum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76a7fdaf5b7c87f7253e3139e7064d13/6779602907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/jiweduzesenoriwupimadasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160701a7651e17---52244072088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d29300406d7---49944452027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doo-san.com/userfiles/file/20210618215937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/12249382319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/32994151709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d333da1020e---virudigovelutoderim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f1dd5d2fd---77896184135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a12f52e9962---tofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcab517b54---zexanotibobufafarono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/lixixopovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c21472f57---wizimifejajulikatiwuridul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/5698533260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072635401934---73820954214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bi2da319p.com/upload/fckeditor/file/zulexubiwebaninigisufezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=what+compromise+ended+reconstructionPDF 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_off000113d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012bea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BEA 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 4c3c937201da24db44161540f2bb29813678a3e52aa10324c381257b2c70c366
font_02_sfnt_off0001592a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1592A 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 37d1e9069a9831f87a754bd920a7c47aa35f7df9e18aecba3acb53582c8b37cd