Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c272b51614a2265…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 20:02:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: accabb9684e49af4faff04b53e4b35ec SHA-1: a776a6c22e171f63edf461442c242bb86ff6cef0 SHA-256: 5c272b51614a2265073774746f5893b0688ce9e04d33c7a3a3fea644ffff113c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories hosting other PDF files. The presence of numerous distinct hosts and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially engage in SEO poisoning for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d38d1df7bae566a2e8ed300255fbf67/93823479545.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/1904729750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a598586d0ca---wigajepurebobite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldway.jp/upload/board/file/90554796029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/41694778251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/80714156085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160916a7163c4d---tatakokowaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/89303000423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f1bc75f3b---91642389506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/zulador.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/530847245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/buwokomelopovafexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609109c3a318a---pubikorudumoxafawot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074c1b66d13e---nimirarezobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qo0j5u5n8hh8k6obuna2kvdjtd/fedoxodalusewezaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cccfa4b65---64241746957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/29010534891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/8829706583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/81862440732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160978cff18dc7---kubatudojemida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832c5b6706f---derurujasilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad45a7ca37a---rulupikude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/jaweruvataxovibigazanerew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+use+pool+salt+for+snowPDF 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_off0000f7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A3 10592 bytes
SHA-256: cd31cb3f733f961bec868df305524b369d04eb2f42c0ebd8abe9170b2d3f103f
font_01_sfnt_off00011022.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11022 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12834 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 507e529a36c913bfbdf74eee0f9b4fbac1ebd1493ff6b4f2193bc97e2b78f801