Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5674e8b9172061f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-10-02 21:33:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5c2ebb989ff20b0881a5125f01cc5a58 SHA-1: d7238e5e147ce5798c668b7cf1adf39a4f561e0c SHA-256: 5674e8b9172061f5c28a053b644c791cd46841e12c69afd6b0434558f0d78531
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with several pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable binary data, but the heuristics and URL analysis are sufficient to infer a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9907

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.oalysa.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guvafenipoworilela.pdf
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/87112658352.pdf
    • https://natinsel.com/imagenes/file/joluxuxilinuwowezefoza.pdf
    • https://cosplay-expo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56238044531.pdf
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615045c1eb63b---90826342312.pdf
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/utnoondu2vv51ua1lg5l9debd7/xunuzivumuwitilupumopefiv.pdf
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gabozebegaledelowudomifab.pdf
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/file/1631578231_1.pdf
    • http://cnfglgreat.netsociality.com/upload/files/83230019434.pdf
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1901ae542c3c6de33d38e23f566e7818/zikedasubugujidesusu.pdf
    • https://trungtammatnamviet.vn/upload/files/kapazad.pdf
    • http://logicparcel.net/uploadsEditorfile/97893212842.pdf
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210911035801.pdf
    • https://takipbizde.com/calisma2/files/uploads/67867933781.pdf
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/dusekaki.pdf
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/39363345992.pdf
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/12529146684.pdf
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac628158fc7e433655f5b64b1221301f/77185479613.pdf
    • https://santevita-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duwanebilozovuzananejene.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bb5326c0a---39926908673.pdf
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ff00d6544c---rijuteta.pdf
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40049136723.pdf
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45512836566.pdf
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/poruzor.pdf
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/jisegorinu.pdf
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69765193966.pdf
    • http://telek-trans.hu/editor_up/jepolimoluwewamifuwum.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+software+hardware+and+firmware
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bcc0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCC0 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4d2.bin
de304918ddca56be4efdf1de0e62b9ea94324bee816d068301db0041d7acfc61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D2 18236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010477.bin
3e03b57925073da23a2d486253f97c98c24a749f9c7afe2fa9ce0d725e8a5d2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10477 10924 bytes