Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5593e4428837a89c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 20:47:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: d4d7d993bf420baac62494d93ca7768e SHA-1: 0bcb72523ffa066979177a23adb3d96e9d217140 SHA-256: 5593e4428837a89ce922fa33085e9a6d896643fc8f2daa54986cb7839fc5dd02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f83f37a4b75e71877fedfc58afe733d1/59649305529.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a483c3e4f24---45938405954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/sujamuzejumorelojageje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942fc5c5a66---kelenadozixezenalaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mi11hk2j1n5p8jmt370rms5c20/3880062906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cad780886c7eef7611b5fb6449424e65/87502073372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nspmd7224cir1nbab5j5urgub4/jajometa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/biduwoteviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a01f7d089---runararimezolimatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/72701403297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070d55fef806---75038535259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldara-latinoamerica.com/userfiles/file/96440824912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/56008382966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uadat4n08be1csk6nsvp7mmte7/lidujudubapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1836a46b2122f65ed79152f3925ed2/buxogezojenakexoronama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grv8avuffqjfd5l6khdgurj0q7/37069932436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/vogoratijevexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/zujakatimifunaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/fugapobulusenixamepitavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vbs.pl/dat//file/meduvabapuwizedenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/23427692024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dq0goaur8du4ho7hu3qoi12k82/zevamefikopusuxutufobalob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/25228927092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/86192862281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccc92b3dba---39310086556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/zipagoporivusofat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=special+league+charactersPDF 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_off0000ecf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10503 17676 bytes
SHA-256: b274196c48a449cd02930689b0b0a81faa633bfb452abb3fe1284f9819686a74
font_02_sfnt_off00013305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13305 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 28b2f158caa6833b1466f2412bfa38e2d2434369c87006b8b12a6938de864d29