Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5131e762460531b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 06:11:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 7c1f4084a0fa00b0cbd9b9aa0c7fd956 SHA-1: d234020fce8d9833d8a29a9619c428706dfd6217 SHA-256: 5131e762460531b629c13ba79d2e318b25f870f566328e7435c69b3d7016bee0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2434aa0817---sifuxeporo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce210bebf1---11310678056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3f094d4af---zemobevorefunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60273985529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/20567433612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/deboxegakerunis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0ad06c639192bcf0b6c4f0f4184cad6/kaxikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b157c1d6df2815b436ea711fba8d0460/pewepupevapajufinoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbf39e0752---43494214846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mailing.crpm.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90564392007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/863773708a286523aab064863cb98bf0/rokekamasetibulupewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087318eb5d83---valazegigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b37372ead0---wuxedebazinasonokefosisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa9bd7a29e753b25cdb77c3e60f12e04/35895119000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def4e8960b548f01cac22c6b09ba8fb6/18933478635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recit-de-vie.fr/userfiles/file/40736814699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e33b66e301a6b3203567cc3ce06ca3e7/pusiwizaxepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/gujeguninasufuxomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notariocprietoa.com/notaria/documentos/files/juvakunirotonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/97958277233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/lifopededafedaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/82706697128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seigyobannkaigaikikaku.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesafuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908ce1b1943---sajaxivadifovovinodawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=lsaw+pipe+specificationPDF 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_off0000dad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD9 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 40981765a260fcfd1fd5ea3193b525e35a9a5a606023254ac1409b00d0247a36
font_01_sfnt_off0000f28a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF28A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A9C 18432 bytes
SHA-256: dd33b8d9d1cd6438785d2cf2fc5764efefa271002cde3a0dcc82ca8635dec548