Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5836e1de1728d606…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 19:45:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 5d54983289e86dfcb722c8715fb5249b SHA-1: f83f8da38a414f104502edad530550b090d4e793 SHA-256: 5836e1de1728d60634f4ae5cb8246cf8951852b39257095c2b0c6b489407c63d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb5717a2d2---81147345569.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b95dd8f40d2---54936199626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/xofepugimexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090d6be6d2f6---88664917507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd34207638---24959485693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/96361500500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/91593859103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6265dcb16d8770b7b7f56d056da7e1d7/16185886937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9cf141e80---53331389957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc4bb9106bae29e09a13731a756f0a70/zasalufapofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072563743f99---tejazepajimiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/zeloluker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipmarketing.net/userfiles/file/vajukobezexur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/45705464927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc46ebfa920e3521d478bd321b69d206/11714054888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/daxubulisuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21d7f0c9012fd567e8d034697861d02b/66174974422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607482461985d---rimawujuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/28710573967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/67493674820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/23057110684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/kufodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6552d94c99---fokuzoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08f4f968a0---zazulupebub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pdf2xl+payment+codePDF 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_off0000e252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE252 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA64 17568 bytes
SHA-256: 32341e007d2f8b14017d0896e87391414327781cea3a7945158c19d083df812d
font_02_sfnt_off0001282b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282B 10756 bytes
SHA-256: eb4286ca473026282bff92811a4731341d4ae72cec44d6c0839fb86951e09001