Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5617126b91619cf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:10:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b3a2fa95bd1309beb0db57315c4a2987 SHA-1: fe449344560e8ac5971e7c051e0ba6cf8981942a SHA-256: 5617126b91619cf1f783b7c61fcbe6fe0608619f2f517e3af41a2bf5885ebc85
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely distributed via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4071217fce8e582148ab5ad538be03fa/militimog.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1731c14973faa0780518a837fbccea9b/tugutajamezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78728702291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/dofojowofamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/faruxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.agencesramos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90643668341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/fewavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datuwibidutufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bc2a864efcb64b6a3093305207b3465/59560226327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1d34d214e---74592980829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607739180eb26---gejafazenadezajoditas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa71616fc3b0ed676e01f96972c12485/nakarupenetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/tezitogapotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/depijowetovitezedafipule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikizmir.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607174f17f5fc---nozuwaxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbee6c5dd4---7418021587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1ark0cu8eiq1ruoih7oun67s9/17549145364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76412942871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/logadefirafumuvusapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/16203777332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dp7cjh9h632cbdsk1se5qm8re0/37935546852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794f550c6c3---22338761534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610da037f165e---vizosujodaxuduwozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b43c296ece3924e4b3b916db39a81cfc/78325547656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96864221d862b4becfac2b0e4b81731b/19620656811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=1984+close+reading+questions+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000b38b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB38B 14764 bytes
SHA-256: 9f62c786ee00a36d6bb905a410cde205b8f80955b66bbceaa6c38d962fcc0e2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d88c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88C 11492 bytes
SHA-256: df139a76378027315d8697bd036a728034e3c278cef5d1151113fb2719ce95d8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f389.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF389 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1