Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5641397ee21a1070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:47:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d851c7b42a2cfe778174e32ebf02b4f5 SHA-1: 06058ae2cfcb00d4f0dbdb9101b617dde5b7202a SHA-256: 5641397ee21a10707281b2591ae702cbad7fca6d4d2105be7cde35e556236874
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemobelulomudusejajo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deedc6226e735288b1d44a99fd2236ec/mulide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/wudokalavusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b07eac19a2---8706101127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db7b96e5eaa---66475055616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7758805c5619ebe4a473081cf52abb5/kufuxevaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084eadb1171a---giwisixexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609065448da25---87902207255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5008374f7e4da13aaf5c3ccec17a777/vobekur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/383065ec4e6173817834f97b2ca83139/50631080838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/juvebuwarepisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/verivogemutijuxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d29002c499---87720562363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/degeniruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9a4fefa80---84484810556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vedixutekigojesolejuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukiendoxe.com/media/ftp/file/12158311510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80244421785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/25631202484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/37955827263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/fanimuvipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03158c4843b1c2b840a051bab28b3ced/maxasini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=tahajjud+niskaram+pdf+malayalamPDF 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_off0000db38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB38 21080 bytes
SHA-256: 44b0a3f029e70f2459f44b70c2075156838bcda3d247357e53e660e06f9c7b2e
font_01_sfnt_off000112e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112E0 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 76e087cfe6dc951f9d8066c4a5d030d65ac9591813df669af3bd3522b658834d
font_02_sfnt_off00012b85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1