Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5992641c6aaf9de4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-08-28 12:51:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f1c8b12f7e0e82ffc49d543ded860d20 SHA-1: 2b21b6c43f5a9fe023fd85121e5e17d1ba92c43c SHA-256: 5992641c6aaf9de47466960febcdccf9581fef9bede20f2c4bb5649810d22fc4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and a link farm structure indicates a deliberate effort to distribute or host malicious files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9ff8c44bc---tufotanuxenirosar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608757b602b02---levemuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1625768381_49aef5e26a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9e5706c52---12839783891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72767e8b98ff01373f0d9f24405cbb79/71474375187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8a82c7e4aa---risaxewujijorolowuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86db84047131246f03bc94fc7ed9fc84/32693969450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnhs9qt5kk18gc3s2dutn5emlr/18122673337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scamps.biz/userfiles/file/bodegajitepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ce01rqhcoa5v6mlguc2vj3r2/76941418216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toanthinh.vn/webroot/img/files/tililarejasuvoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/nitajuxutilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4o7v7a31n7iceeq61jhccbfk3/kurogulifitubizigubaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa645ec2e62e0d985cf40a894328b007/10689268951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguetransfer.com/files/file/jubanasomawetepurawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d67f73ec82---17480854154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astek-telem.fr/userfiles/file/xojojipokuzilixum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608107d8a77ab---pusarelinuvibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/89812359805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806dfd1d1a8---41130621076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-worldwide.org/assets/uploads/files/kiposufosusaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a2de9f8c0---gawojadazimularikalodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074177dd456c---botolovibumolapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/79867630930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pressvaluation.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/bosotaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=anyong+unitary+at+strophicPDF 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_off0000df06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF06 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 692a98194152dc19f6ad5947be9ea3e1739c0aa0b0bc9a88847e92c6c1efd9f0
font_01_sfnt_off00010e40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E40 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 34e67840668d050541e294da82ab4c55aa0c89c70689a887af201593e6142fb4
font_02_sfnt_off000126c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1