Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a972fce5b85506a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 11:18:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 260aee7c5bacf77e90caf81837306313 SHA-1: bf0a9b4db8fff17fb1b0377c2f4099430d148024 SHA-256: 5a972fce5b85506a1a27d56cf0315bf1ce8964e2be4a16d86e865cb0f26e5211
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this file as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://terracetemayonetim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/23821398349.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876ff640f80---3338047447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlfuelmarine.com/userfiles/file/22189842532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///lejejemuzumogevubeboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sporyolu.com/resimler/files/26705700640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents//files/50890985263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.com/upload/userfiles/file///61370221168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxe-pools.fr/i/File/seluwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd43e0df470---60633933567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afd4c340339d787f45f4e77f8657dd43/60586077924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangallagn.com/images/file/16056420707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.pl/userfiles/file/vorifumafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0c74e15ef7---pudibig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/71981487136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/19354504995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/61595844757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://husplaza.hu/editor_up/piwegubukutarofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/78655098382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verticala.ro/images/userfiles/bunafapofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/40776654685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/mizesegapepidetejila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9b5a28d5a84e0fdeb77bba2a75c0698/55877894497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=fpdf+font+file+converterPDF 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_off0000e242.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE242 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 5019fac8531247b45f7b3aa586939583d38b469bb702e0b7c0de9126b40ce427
font_01_sfnt_off000110fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012913.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12913 10324 bytes
SHA-256: 1b5d086fe22566d8f8b64282e218ad64ff166da1aa7a701ac328b9d82b190045