Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bc87025ee1ec31f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.2 KB Created: 2021-07-28 13:10:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 666c895b7ec22a1c5e6bf12de237bb92 SHA-1: c6962d710d072c445f8af38ceb0b4c508262bfaa SHA-256: 5bc87025ee1ec31f3c8f36ca8ad5efbfd4123d53d4a866a393edc318eec817e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple links on disposable or compromised hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j7dqfubgddrr63nupv16ke3fo0/juzajuloxebidogeboderag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/peleburuxevipezilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c353386de8e3b3e487f00fd90303a7c/70582422044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associazionemillesogni.it/userfiles/files/55101713554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086eb130be12---zeraduxezitulobatuleri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/22018256124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607106a76159e---nesafokisoged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/598ece697283d2bc06f5037467f1a3fb/jaxexibubixijifabaxizaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhlt333amdplu38dmc5v6qsv8q/bidiliwuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df8deb8266---31319781247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sealjet.mn/pictures/files/1943766210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/penopabufolamolus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainesclassof1980.com/clients/3/31/314d3ac3c31ee16cfc8f78d457af0ebc/File/futib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a27680344c---sujekovumijuden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5330b892ed---43559120787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a00f3839c2d---darorezesiviviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mhh8a7p5lp2hqavfmihoe6aloi/45703224809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9cc495a631---sukikeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emmanuelmissionarybaptist.com/clients/74938/File/96862248262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e146d3c69---86910188363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockdental.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3905a4514c6af7ce902e1533a0ba8f4f/50735864737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fresh-cherries.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wumuvibeguzumanezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979aee10799---83529403132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4cl496n7gh3peh6189oghfuq3/58646561254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuviet.net/webroot/img/files/62159860063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=linear+absorption+coefficient+calculationPDF 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_off00014c07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C07 22292 bytes
SHA-256: 4748c796ffc25a35b2aaf9d708a6fb964782b1262524c95f078bba8fde731ce6
font_01_sfnt_off00018543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18543 10668 bytes
SHA-256: d93706ad36514ab82664e0efedb8eeac8f4e851044882dbf09501842961c0235
font_02_sfnt_off00019d9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19D9D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1