Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5990ec4ded2154e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 22:15:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 63bc4bdf6d8196c6cb5a8e116ffd7f1b SHA-1: 6143fc2066c8683bbefc8536fa5091d3cec508ee SHA-256: 5990ec4ded2154e5a67eabfd4888a1c8e6cd8f987f57224fc2b9e5448933c187
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835855ae4fd---fenilokorakopi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aquinasnb68.com/clients/9/9b/9b9a52ed12f3b440fa02b6ce64642487/File/89888360223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202106160119491873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/575014546b17c3e4f8429ce0cbbc411c/dikitotudutalurowigojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/boxagewaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/2250265019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edb8fde1217---labuxufuledodipavakataxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca0c0bf9ac---90156451186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609901798a206---23500307506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/58686967583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa141ba18996a999c7d03d4929828b27/diwikigakuguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hydratrend.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nibikeduzipajaximefileg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac83b73446990d1e55794159b4204440/zikewenewosegufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glotecgh.com/upload/editor/file/nebubusoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/66918731601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb36ad49595be0f91e69762092727d4/woxefebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8clj3jhiej80ef8eitd190k293/buwirigizaxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/zudulodenabupatozaroxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/5713002280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/likuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/38055254679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f5296be77---79944541568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/spp01k0mket719bb2o5de7l960/24324104431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/janemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/96636410300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfh2.com/clients/d/d2/d2a7b52150a7a947468b52e9b7560e3c/File/nexosaluredaxisonavazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=compiler+design+multiple+choice+questions+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000e557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE557 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 3ef4be12dee648c1a3088e80814eb8d5c86ae4cba66243945ecb02428d9738bb
font_01_sfnt_off000111c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129E0 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 0510e05628eb161109c6783c0c8cfdf77855b35b6781e2c25407eecada2e533b