Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5279cfeee3700d34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-08-24 13:50:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 75f838a1fd546b96bed3209a5fd6f8ff SHA-1: aba7ad327cb85f2098a73c08372a0fa6702e292c SHA-256: 5279cfeee3700d34b7a1d7e5806c4d5590a10fabee73016b2b59aec429f33bb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier with high confidence. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a lure to direct users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5iskb6cqjh88glbuvo9d2gk56f/55798637162.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/pefodenukitajiwolojakedoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oilbasaro.com/web/images/ckfinder/files/20210703153811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c79dbb8ba---64103126828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/40606682460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fae932409f5---20790939781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpc1970reunion.com/clients/3/3e/3eb4c5728feca7eb79feed4eed44c519/File/63879323819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitaldaya.com/imagenes/file/debopepisapevozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscow-vernisage.com/files/files/67918194257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/luxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stallingreunion.com/clients/a/a3/a37dbb3dca22f8cb40f44de83fe48269/File/vetetoziwenabutelivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c466116bf4c---wubuxujasanebevemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a86588456dcfc0cb08108ad6454b513/98162773155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlv9pq0vaqc3j3mjh5eoo88mda/ruzeludilenidubijekedoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210616095617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9491171aee---14764900029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/puxageze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104e512d56bd---30210510299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/zamomote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6o7netk4tkaec2fb2hchrbblg/fakode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/7199010921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf65db08563---94672389757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/96110173402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berkeleyhigh64.com/clients/9/99/99a482d4bd0dc5522cc24ea7f8204a07/File/fijukuxixegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=pic+collage+online+freePDF 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_off0000dc84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC84 10244 bytes
SHA-256: c1ff9d019febdd266bd87cc20d40fd936bb6d549040e0831ee90499ae7552276
font_01_sfnt_off0000f39e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010bb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB0 16824 bytes
SHA-256: b0b34852cb3115a47cd830aa2ae52632bd829b6434846ee780663b20adb4971c