Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5824447f6cbe92bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 05808867d9f5edaa20a28ba1a1b5d5e9 SHA-1: c2beffbfa56169b1d8d18fffb730919102452ffa SHA-256: 5824447f6cbe92bc4563a41392425244b81e3694259014af4804c68390b2ac19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing attempts. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are strongly indicative of a phishing or malware delivery campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fd3c5d4fc---wukijuw.pdf
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca311c95603fac1c2b2339e056878aa/86976895030.pdf
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/8146676480.pdf
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63e74b10b1f8b6a8c07bd88b05fca368/gupate.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc5fd29b49---69515734984.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afff782d324---folufok.pdf
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160c8dff3e9768---sirafuzodakulipafu.pdf
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/36116722317.pdf
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/833d4c3bec997be2fc96e31626d4c2b0/54828340880.pdf
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0723c83977---71117063943.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076372c1962b---vefixuxuwofajikavinimidab.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47ed47659e547b179d35197c80786fe1/83010419254.pdf
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ed0b2790ec193459d73501a1e0972d2/sudazituzimetiserasufam.pdf
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/31615280931.pdf
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/vexexusetutuw.pdf
    • https://sanxuattrucauthangkinh.com/Images_upload/files/61103913423.pdf
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c1f17cd28---wituxam.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072546b5d9a5---23927825627.pdf
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7r2658bcu8pnaepr2gvk3ombn/8235567126.pdf
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/94934238280.pdf
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/pezaxewavapigesokagedudat.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607273c175f38---14510705511.pdf
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/semefibodonen.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=payoff+table+problems+solutions+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011a76.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A76 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013288.bin
1b5c8fbf6fabc7748fb18714565916ef5e7926b07bcef27b1bdd135487a3e339
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13288 18884 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00016401.bin
fe07d5b0d72754f22581bb72c37f7f0157f33ac53fe49191d0c72c54f1e6817e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16401 11012 bytes