Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5463e38ee5e0e590…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:38:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d18aabcb20e629bb0204770bbd1cbf7b SHA-1: d1e7a2c6c839e215fa9ed891ecd196a72680f532 SHA-256: 5463e38ee5e0e5906b7e5688350ce4c4d699354152db2f9f4a1ec998577d6ec0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, aiming to deceive users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t69ig9p0ep43rtuuah0g7ua0j1/44045310941.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57301ced70502e13029fd44d9627d01d/jodajekanidusevorifegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c97412f5c7---vokasuradu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/96195362500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/94638123158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/74479212995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60592b5046e6578fe5f92645827ea04a/95961127721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860521d1c4b---52170064185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d9d4354b1ddf8006b9fd0b2d1a51b2c/71271151835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/10231383398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3028270d71---zodakujako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mustwalge.ee/data/content/files/33446404973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluelakehomestay.com/uploads/image/files/nikejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/50581673705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84q9g7p6bpn3m9qqse5vgvp4ol/lopido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michaelwilliamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60666866674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/16831591769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/85736553053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e7d6ba7d25---13615429369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d79c81ce408---79587563608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tns-china.cn/editor_upload_image/file/76813816065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c17f4f40a9---97681516579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085afba1a1c1---58577873577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardennes.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53384127581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=estatuto+da+oab+atualizado+e+comentado+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_off00013fdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FDB 10964 bytes
SHA-256: b4bbea120ef9789279c790729f9122be2096b52969fd16bb8b6b37560f31134c
font_01_sfnt_off00015914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15914 20604 bytes
SHA-256: 88cea5b2880ae47d19f6d2d2629823c36fba4b6b2552a6413b95614e95eef33d
font_02_sfnt_off00018c97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18C97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1