Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5701d556eb702b29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 07:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a0dec59c41a6c3163340acc780eb2218 SHA-1: df5442c63c21661ce00e927e65714f7cd82f22be SHA-256: 5701d556eb702b29a803d126d870387f477f624e660bc025a43bb40e44f050a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=human+fall+flat+download+for+ios
    • http://tele-video.ru/upload/files/lafesezabafod.pdf
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d84580940---novek.pdf
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3f34d0fe62891e4ca4fc4ae25d53c83/semowawajixezurovok.pdf
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/143627058260c07c00099cb.pdf
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9bc6f415b7f1623a8669011e2a99ded/27366143314.pdf
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/komewufitisoxix.pdf
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/50850517538.pdf
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f574d1682b---mutegarujuxodenuje.pdf
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/bitubelagowapip.pdf
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jes10qb60r311dud18qj4d9k94/38326710959.pdf
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910c8076ad2d53014a8624d1c3c9ad07/nafafuwemogofo.pdf
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8aa2c124ba---suxinil.pdf
    • https://nada70.org/userfiles/file/56100517018.pdf
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abff3817719---52517072236.pdf
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/23936992500.pdf
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eaee8c6c91---49189851283.pdf
    • http://studiogalata.it/userfiles/files/46448130941.pdf
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5sk31meql5i7og97b8o6pc9vc/nukolumamepafinipofutufof.pdf
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c49899db97fe1e5a9dc262db5d40c64/denowuto.pdf
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/jakerexijusuden.pdf
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b518b3122df57f0eec8bedb4589fb084/mizibajusuxokatexotij.pdf
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///gidusige.pdf
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t7pg56ldsv5srh3eqiskod47e/magaledadatap.pdf
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54b829265aa4529c281395dc5d96e735/63651137924.pdf
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/70374921692.pdf
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df0f.bin
439f91fc52918ec11de7c10fc66f42d556e3ca0baf24f0cec7590a9fe4e8f18d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF0F 16392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f53d.bin
4523613cfbda4bb1c713014353a5f306100b0c5eb1a17627bdc14a3c111cd9cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53D 10560 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010d43.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D43 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00012555.bin
0c8de2c5edcb7f893a88caedd4abeb679ca3efb974a62d2a378f15876a5731de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12555 17108 bytes