Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a9e30c58a6a7e2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 22:17:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e5f7c7a9359ba074424cda924f42f209 SHA-1: 6ec9cd99757466d01077d1ee2fc116eb3e67d6bd SHA-256: 5a9e30c58a6a7e2d2795b2e69e57215f5607b6dda8e0c65c835623c82cc62480
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of numerous external URIs and the compromised CMS upload links strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=married+at+first+sight+australia+martha
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608217ce69032---56140227069.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6af4721e29---bunesebuwanelorin.pdf
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5f361df7d---rogamadam.pdf
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oerpoutbc64i48066fhmnco0im/79047510886.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d89fbf00618---zagukudaxupugabos.pdf
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1on2snhh19ibje7kvcdoq5a4nb/80011229541.pdf
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42659854676.pdf
    • http://studioriggio.it/userfiles/files/rezakevolajafidoxid.pdf
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/78426842727.pdf
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c33f8819fe436c5a527bca99cb22051/wovuziz.pdf
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/9583966733.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0a096245e---14111141368.pdf
    • https://traveletrust.com/basefile/traveletrustcom/files/78246121355.pdf
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/78978746018.pdf
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f8a1981c1ddac95caac408e0b675b00/kowutejaz.pdf
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa6054c0a13---9158889257.pdf
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a03c4ed03757f3734856f29a4c6b21d/wifujoxivipuzopozufodaf.pdf
    • http://inlygiaylynhua.com/upload/files/saturafafosimesixu.pdf
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6cff27308e8bed4975ea3659709008e3/59754790241.pdf
    • https://cosmeticdermatologymiamibeach.com/uploads/data/files/pizelujutedelulipemak.pdf
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835fe082c27---koburusezetikamasob.pdf
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae76c6fe222bae2cb7f3eaa5faa5face/3998529571.pdf
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827f9e4bc1e---11591760916.pdf
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/sotogolo.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ecf5.bin
2198846627fe343077742263a74d88626ab1ce551f2250b26d4a9b538647aacd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECF5 10672 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001052a.bin
82ee1524258a0719c60f8df77d23bbfba15052b012c23388c8b4f2ad942dc0a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052A 17684 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013390.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13390 16792 bytes