Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5132d35552d752f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-07 00:22:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b59d3432d8bb0bf398f8f04d03f0f4c2 SHA-1: 5b7f201af03bc4066691d48ef358c73f664639b1 SHA-256: 5132d35552d752f76215e068ee492aba998fea3c673fd33fe4f62d7ba8b88cbb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to link farms hosted on compromised WordPress sites. These link farms are designed to redirect users to other locations, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or a downloader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942dcd93102---35720730626.pdf
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fu89hcge6k9qu68a993do450u/82314686808.pdf
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acdfd1c13011af9e8129b1b8964504ef/zizirek.pdf
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/resejufip.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/079608720a194db5564afa54bf79d4b0/molinodujafanabapegalotax.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1e2e5207c---90499634833.pdf
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a577e4c635dd219a409551628085958/25897002652.pdf
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc092c1310---62097905829.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jr9pkig6bd1ve6qd15qatp9od4/6089651661.pdf
    • http://daphongthuyhueminh.com/uploads/image/files/22110961585.pdf
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/311a0731b67f941c861356185d848083/96808632193.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lj2241kg4cimbhsovmpr8elec2/berozuterigumanifabumo.pdf
    • https://diaspoassur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d3f5c9333c5a78c07d9e2bd8bca6319/govupomivifubitefa.pdf
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31a850cb8b3738ef12fd7d35d9de3798/bewubi.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be5f1d5d22c---vavigus.pdf
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fdf27398e---91753452627.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dec0f1636b9589c602c525d0cba60308/75040623836.pdf
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/tamanimivilanajunoma.pdf
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f78ddfec7---gunuvovetizawamufajupig.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721e3aa2698---gaverakesasumamaxugegot.pdf
    • http://yorkiematch.com/clients/6/65/653dc45b8f6063886304ac4260dbb99c/File/gumosedudaxipegepij.pdf
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/jivogilafu.pdf
    • http://abpaluso.com/upload/file/rabog.pdf
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/25466513188.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+tax+rate+from+income+statement
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6f2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F2 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff04.bin
22c43b88e5a9b362756da9eded9d73749bfc7bb0d8faf4a30be807b42dfb7c7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF04 16928 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b19.bin
9e920996e21b04250f6684af2c30201d7b252e6e2c087faffab9a088b5b594ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B19 10812 bytes