Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5348537fe7e4cb43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:18:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1a0a6f63cfad6d2e21f6b84135124390 SHA-1: 263e55cba5a30424d29edb83d65898321516b326 SHA-256: 5348537fe7e4cb43c70c902529af530056cad514b189ba2841b0566f6fb9d3b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous URLs, many pointing to WordPress sites with 'super-forms' or 'formcraft' plugins, indicating a link farm hosted on potentially compromised infrastructure. The presence of a PDF link farm heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and heuristics point to a malicious document designed to lure users through external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4914ac566209ccc0461c2e4b78f364c/88762093810.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d181902b128---vutazudugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i56d7jf4rcappdskfqlno7f24i/39285953051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/81468700015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9395f26e3---74812948000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/kulitoribivibanozisutolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/23437544444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fopuluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afcacbd8353---rorifoxukuzeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/36144386328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/bususemase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18317122184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.org/gymostrov/userfiles/file/newekulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c13321c3db4e50bcdac538a9d85178bc/98635676305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/815d9e66409b802e75a9095724f9aec6/rolizikipigejutojepakoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1723130069e799d04e7186ad95f792c1/lelobizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126f5069bfe7---wagadorigutesifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaders-adv.net/userfiles/file/49680722928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910d242925922c53298f980a4468aceb/lewamibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79e54a16e83f9717a273592580814a15/tamenulalibasasetipofibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/84086728695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b8d281cab---34327684430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97862704768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraucheta.ru/uploads/file/makuxewevaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/57853757294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=fairyland+4+pupil%27s+book+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000e123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE123 17864 bytes
SHA-256: f24c1e6e04b258aa32262d02d35c369b996ec3867722915fdad4eb13a1e98686
font_01_sfnt_off00010fae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C5 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 729d947fb71118577f1d6fc9ddeda08068fbbfba056a21dfc98b7df5a9b12027