Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5224867f64696805…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b18e8e08b68c7c336944a6dbb890df0f SHA-1: 44a76c410c7d66416caa4ad9a1819edbb604f41e SHA-256: 5224867f646968050c10845a2a3074a2ff21a232611c041515d90dfb5ce25aa6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious destinations. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a link farm heuristic further supports its role as a distribution or phishing vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ebh4onrj59o3kb04t6n9cjqm0/50697232023.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c8858990e36ab3d8c741fc5c9fe8326/matoreripofuwaminome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609de20fc32a8---rurosorun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/440878f32350a956440e5027cefa6b75/48164908779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53ad351d26909cb0e557df6a9ef5ca02/zavinedenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5099e7a47---bexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/59407007188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/safabamagaregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6a5eca24a77cda05b85045f95d57b9/kokagisasojawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f870cf152812e45b7c5b606fc2fdf5ab/tanogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/gukakejinevodamudafaxuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c72dc6420c---96065077488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b69b2d87d---kowovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysolutions.it/uploads/assets/file/74303725939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/70499502506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/sokopozewipobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607746870151c---84903684770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9199e0cbc5d740b72ab0063d78330343/63624505139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85e6a37d15---78369912827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb50daed5---404025006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fcafb2d11689ab8cf650bcee71f1ddd/levadexedopiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429145014457830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983e70714df---figuwibedavijibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3fd7dc73bd---nafelujuvibure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihq2vcoftgnbrp46qp1m8k3rac/62618241640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+outsiders+chapter+12+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_off0000f2e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010af8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AF8 16388 bytes
SHA-256: c75a1858bcbdba68446b216614b2ba6e0ff28a3511f0f5224ab50a236aab20b3
font_02_sfnt_off00013549.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13549 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 81a044c591aab71ae7a35a6ae97911be7d8d34d349a0729a00fbc98bf638e751