Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5526fdb0487d841f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:51:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 4efc41239cc45f05e9a0ecf5cbfc2abb SHA-1: cda12bb78d4aad4d52cae514e0233d3fc4557bfa SHA-256: 5526fdb0487d841fccddb87804229c17e4b436625902fdb2b730fed49cf8eace
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of these links and the compromised hosting points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9931

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://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac649593804---jejupomuxipogaxunakaxal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvuntiu12291i9p7i139fbtp60/vujuwexefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/zekolobowowusokupanixaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coatielectronica.com/files/wekuresena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/kufetutilatimopibese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe552fc2878635a1be5920c572ea13ac/puzaromujizolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uci.ir/userfiles/file/sajobifovajuviruwanoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/vuzemodenabaxekobubawamav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/jaremebapemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eccdc.org/application/webroot/userfiles/file/rujetususow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestuby.com/userfiles/file/82808751848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/13169842581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609892d001611---27917443613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cm8caae5d9a0a0a1dxk6dd.com/user_img/files/73086799748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077893749773---27996567660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0faa882c4f---176430437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spectrumohio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad5220d32a311ad3c095ef30e6a712b/45182728431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33b6974e9138ff3e6c8779ae9e381350/babas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989ff71619f---65751547605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da62747881---rojukuvukoxuwagijeritigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d86830f54---55689182634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca13b8e52e7---kulepuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgl.lu/userfiles/files/35660291105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9199d7cf8---wulewox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/85123274382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=malcolm+in+the+middle+then+and+nowPDF 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_off000145c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145C3 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 7f8b0b157753d72f8a26514ad8c45d739979ac7a42c61f7404357f87b06ab06c
font_01_sfnt_off00015d47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D47 18604 bytes
SHA-256: 3990958f484f53228f518f854da2139cb06bca0513d7944e9c6e302de044df15
font_02_sfnt_off00018cb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18CB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1