Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ace870fb56d7d19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:35:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 198b8cdae55c61c3f44b17001a3246a3 SHA-1: 08af600b4b9820cbd0cc12789f41e4a7076d4c61 SHA-256: 5ace870fb56d7d193d5e3617a2c65dd5330480eba217ff6f8f38618e3f17c68d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as hosting for further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad19990b8a8796e924e2bce9115308ba/jiboxezunuda.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea9efc97a65541dd80d908548cfa551/vamamevipadafowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/19403491120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8de1elcjkbutef7361ehoes77/16669047328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9e7e13ddf---21511489812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/jomegavetak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd10bf62b4d8943577147b05e9f3258/biwewufevajese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/81247489344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840764925fb---zobemineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/47483225096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8757a151623f82d482d851137cdff5/teratutamekinimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smit-electronic.hr/upload/datoteke/94958068321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/sodomevigikezuwaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/kibotefisusigukodusuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7009e2f404---vixuporasoxukavunutixazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cf4a1edabb796ef040dc2f8aa0321e9/53119733660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ev1acv13gn51qefj1dukrvt0im/67005524470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b63f6e544ee---52681937418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7c934479c---57325689682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c57f0e32cd---vijesedesexijipozefozuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l0mov75p7socfuo3lfg51pj7v3/69704780905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e31590ec5---xaxapenewimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=other+word+for+statedPDF 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_off00011540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11540 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012d57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D57 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 778428e8cdabf067b0fe7f6da8cf471addda88f74462ab7cdd835b1cd3109e7a
font_02_sfnt_off000144e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E2 17392 bytes
SHA-256: 8132fc616d0f87c49e1a98c0d03434a979b6a4b16ffa5e310b59f2cbaf738a4c

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