Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b32f54e00ff483b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-08-08 11:07:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 405ba1584a3ae30a892cbe6c740eb450 SHA-1: c3a7425870ebe9195437b0c3e89df026cc818738 SHA-256: 5b32f54e00ff483b3778ddac0275b5541c8779ee7a22e778c20c5fd9c52bedd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points to a tactic of leveraging potentially untrusted hosting for malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/wosadekarenaxo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/kobipenevezuzusedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3a8f98967---9829115656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a601256e54---85774316691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608059ea848ca---1655718601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3916262cbc---92257170286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotelek.hu/files/file/3040011079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/25086598260e95c127d1b4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4appsoftware.it/file/vejexedulisamafuzebige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608383840bcec---mituxizusunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9jhfbn0ssf51umvpfnukprm1f/jeguvozapuwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvqt0vjef7g1tef0c1vidmfda6/sutajomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/10163815894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/dubumisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolcezzecaffe.it/file/wewimalalujilarujilof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog//file/37636281488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18ed249fc93fc8ab7ffcda46455d8b0c/sadisepanulemunik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2027644daf43c4dea056f689648439e8/82986680755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8608744160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080676e0c85d---91975393015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a8c839ca9---28362519801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tarape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5fa370987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.clc-engineering.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/figufabapesofevev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/12653553158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+intermittent+fasting+warrior+dietPDF 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_off00010f96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F96 18648 bytes
SHA-256: f4a9533184db1a4ed351cf5415947e61a004e3cbe1c81bba1654f6121f413695
font_01_sfnt_off00013e59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E59 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 4f2aed378f183360a7c3c26e0c5f6a80ce3cc9952d5cce38bebc7cec2ee1f28a
font_02_sfnt_off000156ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1