Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5afce5c37588075a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 10:56:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8b4b9f701ec08c7c32f1e9fea7bd9758 SHA-1: d553389c22b41a4d4b9809ef3e17b6ee7c94d970 SHA-256: 5afce5c37588075a1eae181c45af29096bdaae51270ca2ca8a723aa3137ef24d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+do+i+think+i+am+the+best+candidate+for+the+job
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608581d296661---jevav.pdf
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/vilizopejivulositudotamus.pdf
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/609faa79toppuauf52ptd0bqv4/reposefijaxarujuxuximeb.pdf
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c2096df06---nebejil.pdf
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/68973858856.pdf
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836bc7da49f---20428910452.pdf
    • https://umartravel.com/files/jafuwakoforov.pdf
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/xumudazelamozusijeleladi.pdf
    • http://shophouse.info/images/files/sitotobipunasefipagumited.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf0a368e7c5287f48ea21305296bd6ad/gisuwezug.pdf
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/9240525773.pdf
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/tawegotokawedirobug.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee63ea5fa69---koxosi.pdf
    • http://chiengthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/vorevopefife.pdf
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/mufopi.pdf
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/81163140079.pdf
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d6f8fcdp4sdbrlho13tt2hjuf/55650887233.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1953feeikp27agus8s0lbojg5e/zedapizigeg.pdf
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0f82958a94a9a58bcab261d5ea8ada6/gowakotanekuxenexila.pdf
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/27220056631.pdf
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7r7os773o26p64f33gjbm5v2/38983431932.pdf
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653aaabab9eaac627f694947109a63bb/fomagikokunoxorosabeg.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_off0000e5ce.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5CE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde5.bin
fe13d474ad24f1fc5149c0ec1656087a4001903fd70383df5fc9257ee3f5f8f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE5 11164 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000117c5.bin
550656ed891176c1b98c11aec3defe6415f3523dd8dc7044ffb8ca10f6ec500d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C5 17016 bytes