Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5850b9a792ff51db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-20 15:16:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 333c92f5bb271766b32c93b47962f04f SHA-1: 54450a9c8b2feeacaf21b35eae5685ab5270cc07 SHA-256: 5850b9a792ff51db3989cd527f46ff13de413c5ccbdaa4975ece781d7bbe62fd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or to serve a second-stage payload. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points to an attempt to leverage these sites for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607664d935501---mekabojogapej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fea23114af3ab39a6e44a3f764cab40/radivowixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/retuxutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a54eea74c96b456e89b1439644944320/35776403746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/ribolosune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872f8e25565---latepim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpnou5c8ob4jcu9h5ig2r66rj2/wuvokufotujabukolulofiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cappellastudio.it/userfiles/files/63841401652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88d497374f---sepawixanotaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854f5d057c5---26899265190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce8cf9ce1e---29695186422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fccd6796520f702b4af7ca5e9e68e234/fivelivegalotezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/10374369740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d866770d899d8c007fcff649ad69ea/98878891500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6lil4ano2m5m7q7oa2mhf7ja4/64565498403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tingchucontrol.com/Uploadfiles/files/pofesufaritumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industra.sk/userfiles/file/35541806983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feg.vn/uploads/files/wajepilodepevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160efe1587c742---jonejivitexewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edumedcare.pl/upload/files/20737392000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generoussecurity.com/uploads/sesawajeberojutikokebakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdr7tggclh7357dmbh90otcqls/21213200467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rwdwebwebdesign.com/img-aim/files/43805543578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b46b0ef53312f8efd478be3694ab81d/numamajixufigoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60ecf1a7e69fad58dbd380b25db7e4c8/29642484362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=drawing+of+playingPDF 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_off0000ea5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10271 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 6c35f229a52a1e8d53f5b72936f3949abe9e43cdc6cd3640476bd09305b2afd0
font_02_sfnt_off000119d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D6 16780 bytes
SHA-256: 136aab40b147376ea4d31caba6f5cad83d15b5533d39541398d957b3254d10e4