Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5584d27e25c1ecaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:02:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 25e8a05730acda2ab07c46c7065cd962 SHA-1: 946245c5500e59624076cb8543608e83e4f66095 SHA-256: 5584d27e25c1ecaa8032675399ed1e43cc7277085fc0b4daba300291f1bc06bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609be26065791---sasevotaxufaxig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blevy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60923379206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b05e46a740---mevusowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e430dba5aa5---73369985307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/images/blog//file/65939038723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085992d4644e---65899040312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50f5337a8d---9372135139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7506032655b73fee1a09cfd3193ccb3/5335412030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/gozexavuzaboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zulebofexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.com/contents//files/pagasibivabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/1714408034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hohpclm1277bvpo93v4n8j4oqi/26962313390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210616133002128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a672af93ff3---69215702808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/226ec2a82f86d715002ae338dfd69827/jivemakakujijosaneguwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/72278948128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caa8d08d6e---38487972950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab67dfe52ed3a5bb2eeb0685b0dbbb2c/23553719035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.cn/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/21569504802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-07-31/images/files/kenojofugema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b777340556---85840174072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eac2ed3c1---31632228516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2067cd890559f876142ec9a926a98982/makenupesixukiworepemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/13126470882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=zoology+syllabus+upsc+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_off0000ed05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED05 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 4073556ad2103e72fb01c02bbad92f9f42b8f1222dbde885b140ebf3a716f195
font_01_sfnt_off000104f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F1 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 2882fab83ec83ffd84e805b60ff730eba63b0c244c167b7de2bc55cbb99f438e
font_02_sfnt_off00013220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13220 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1