Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5107d15ea7647198…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 17:38:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: dcf58a0e8e847f83680f7d6f65a687c0 SHA-1: e56be32eff10e9ee6a540b84b122d1bebf11fdb2 SHA-256: 5107d15ea7647198b7af813cadbda88ca1ea24839ab2d63d75aec71347dd0b1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure points to a malicious link distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f983f8589f---50874934308.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/bulileviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/52378212004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828b4da43ee---wefusafavatupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/82136640973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607edef424ff6---rizefanixajewepetumomekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b154a86dd9---xelimesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b45c17672e---vozuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b39c45d35---49245540434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/sulexuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/japararibizenizofodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/woguxazeriwonefanekegotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/29720303790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/48980551370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/sijepifamekarupoxamerikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07fd644e68a89dfe2fc2a2c212fffcf1/gukojodavomajabites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4321ae792---70427415530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/93532823250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7a2cce893424102d2725ea1248b0997/kumigudotuvokafugifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8eb9b57b9379ec6001e66f321952d4/liduparilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/moxumodogoguvusewuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/77770772794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/96384430971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9b6bf01e3---27198803840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=manually+manage+music+and+videosPDF 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_off0000c9d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1EA 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 5797fd38a6467d5bda13b4163a071c8fcd676ecc990f9816c1cc50c20146e08a
font_02_sfnt_off00010f68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F68 10788 bytes
SHA-256: e957cd88fe3a4dddd230ca030106ec061f3187ce89a98988a8a654294f0eea73