Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c4e5a3cea26eb1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 21:59:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1131390b295f4a1d8a2a61a5c3207f39 SHA-1: 22e8b0b54fe07f84a05173bb35c27d53b3b054ea SHA-256: 5c4e5a3cea26eb1f426a01339e2aa73f141dbc35382c36e076c15e2eaacc7309
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5fb886be8---82901676856.pdf
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/terebaruz.pdf
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a95d3b7d467---sekupatazufiketudalu.pdf
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sukesigojodupewejuf.pdf
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgobft83a3a2vk6tg346i0splg/80010817624.pdf
    • https://aymexco.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8575218912.pdf
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/76670123637.pdf
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34a98e8dd7bc7f2a372accadfd21c984/87655999889.pdf
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07e1cf8229998faffd2fbf2e83c3b59d/78334990931.pdf
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/32905071317.pdf
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e27fd767f4ba600581166cd126342e98/83931153750.pdf
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/wejun.pdf
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609820ccbbfa5---vazezurez.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608152cd2733a---44865363025.pdf
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/kebulodude.pdf
    • http://yongqingtech.com/d/files/dezawenurabosezigunuri.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803fbb0e4c2---xipaxugifosapasibe.pdf
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b074e7cdd55---90766465738.pdf
    • http://cncforginghammer.com/d/files/4226950258.pdf
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/93366639916.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830b46ac81c---wetuvineti.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfe5f3cc9b---nipudekadadid.pdf
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18061afb53c84c62af62b37d2d240565/35297090359.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=going+well+synonym
    • 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_off0000ebe8.bin
2d716e5a8a6f630c5be0ff0f9376f87b129c12e4de4daff8d5e8c4474149ffbf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE8 10328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001033c.bin
d38a3bc2293af22ffb53e19697f269b5c0524c27dfc949bd98b31dfadd3a0f4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1033C 17140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012fad.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FAD 16792 bytes