Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5284d0d321ba7271…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 10:50:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7809a53885a3460cec03813d5e022861 SHA-1: 2bdbf24e88db5dbc13238cebda322bd466d87c63 SHA-256: 5284d0d321ba727111da76b96ac052042f7a899cefc729dff8b9d651e183a67e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links hosted on potentially compromised infrastructure is a significant indicator of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6s26o7gg85imragp0pghm7ml0k/1003374150.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://debandhelder.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82991702551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/nupofalidozezojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4179c2b2a275f6ba949a4c22ed323a32/82634169377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedelsur.com/contenido/files/kilonewefevides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h8s2am2p0ttlpdo6j6ejikm6i0/gomugelexamekaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61a50dbbd6---65045972655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d910e18dc2231f1d101bf7e188396b7/tenelukazazirexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/66218034622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0738002ee75abcfc87ff8af6fb0032ac/44960644617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/nevodabexufup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/xujikerolamabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiwum.wyryki.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papozupigep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/rubuwagukodifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bdn10.cz/files/file/98037094543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeu782ln68iqvv8c6urs5ps2mr/18489848323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e484c20a5837fabcf8d3712a0daaf8c/80202294648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c9909fe51---setewulasunujuwivika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec8fbeebb4a856c842578409bbd5377/lawikozuwapedelular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/lurepurudefuzuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/togiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/fadizeluwidurojokozutivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/xoraxuvexanid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ba1c3627b---11738109819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+appeals+to+you+about+this+role+best+answerPDF 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_off00013d10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D10 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 20e40fa7f61d8cbe566840e4aa217018c2163a06e0f4d837670852f364c367d5
font_01_sfnt_off00016981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16981 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 8ca25cc7415a03ff382669ab82636cac357b62017555cf5db3f1c65e64242e18
font_02_sfnt_off00018226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18226 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1