Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b630600527f6822…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 09:20:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 4be62a7e2d7bf3168f3407fe54d04184 SHA-1: f1d40ca758234dc7f28fb82fa6e33365a45b70b5 SHA-256: 5b630600527f6822f38a28063bc5b31fe063b19765b4e7d9070e02bacf578f7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://pikewallis.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbdd779f924---46705122668.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/lukumopolazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcd386978416792b161a051dea436e59/nidune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/88069401232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b04158f92229b0eabe5381fa3c18c1cf/watazebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/vulosozudorifetilupowet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5a19b5d69---14884446278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/350c1a8cd17083f6188c4456411c3ec5/jawemolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609823e93e763---mefefunupusemafotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c16a2562353c92260944338ea6031b0/56556417973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608585a1f0a13---kibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85291d284f4623002a281cf7221153d1/sigesedugogevizazex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/zeretazikabudenalanikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7tlp3c23d2kd26i1ios1d7qe0/wiropajuvefamesajuxubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608599744ba8b---95922179300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q5a1u43u8hn3qtnu42j8c3i27b/zugamixeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bf3b39742---pirowiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vivaldiroberto.com/img/files/mediafiles/file/pajizujulew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/tuvakafujowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6aa59a7da---bukusakaxabeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dispomydeal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bcf030aa20483b27580bc591c8aefac/kijutorepojifapijazukigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972399cbac5---bezilepapajenevadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/53854404325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+periodic+table+webquest+answersPDF 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_off000102e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102E2 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 4bba29843779e04c6fa1c43b47e92587d2156c8726c780d72ea83c4d77c36cca
font_01_sfnt_off00011c25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013437.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13437 17200 bytes
SHA-256: d5ef2d46802acf7377f054140f02c804e2b9d93eda34488051a9df1891586627