Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5418e2e7ea6639d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-06-22 19:17:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 48e655fb58c0a48f7dfa21be7f38b012 SHA-1: 762705998e302b0cc5cd671158088616597e32da SHA-256: 5418e2e7ea6639d71452188b09eb5748fd2da696e5a0d5c9c7b5ddf6ed1358af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to compromised websites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to an online application form. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this file is part of a phishing campaign designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1698e8189dad5dd01b51e271143ce772/kujizobox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/duh4dkpo42ifs0khh6gfdfo0bb/20245792648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607129df0426c---33529576278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f16f742e4---jinuxokikalogojawogofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93613206980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d49326395d---gadoteruwokepurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f81448833---vipagakinimeveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b27a09fe3f---kibepetotebonifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cr2tek.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/fixefalikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16072eb5fdbea9---61964007534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81ef4e4e6e---24532363344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/minaraxawifamamazune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betalinktech.com/blmedia/file/bexovidod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807f1a46c04---fitejifaritejovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/javadefemilokunutadesiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/162424404230799199407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859ca2a7959---sovutosabalironuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionklara.cz/userfiles/file/ladudarobozofejanozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a8db3a03c---semofazagidode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=kvs+online+application+form+for+class+1PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E5 5244 bytes
SHA-256: 44d07721aa0b558873f45910c642b64b3dc673e6c7c5c58d0b497eecb0e5b54d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BA 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 94d6f8db97622b6d0b87bedca31afdfb73eafbafc32f5a3b66ece124b6d919e6