Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ca8e6a6d5718a67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:11:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9b9b34cefb313031ddda4024fd9aebc2 SHA-1: 1dfb161cd7b8147034abefff2ae5e88799ac77a9 SHA-256: 5ca8e6a6d5718a6787639d8a41522fd3c1b1f6e3492017edd4c34a96546ae014
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, specifically within the formcraft plugin's file upload directory. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content hosted on these compromised sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed603cbc7b---nuloke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/94694080091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f4051cb8c---vikipof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949ecb6f991---vidomukujikujafilobiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lombardpruszkow.pl/local/userfiles/file/senesunarowezojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf905a88527---46528154639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608401cbe2dd7---45343422944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0bd6733febeaa0b68202d2ff55f1ab6/37321773959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wang023spa.com/userfiles/202107file/2021070115573570554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5nkgb284nobier3giscboblji/pubapilazixifebutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-stroi76.ru/userfiles/file/84776126391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pospatrans.cz/UserFiles/File/werasiguzulijuwalireraxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/64821426041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhg88375bk0vedr1lp2g3fs1sn/93133812981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/97613884779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/babotuwukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apotekatia.ba/fajlovi/sosen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a340d3e4460516f7f75765b7b3d951f4/modolomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/poxodilugexisazowik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22980558221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofagiani.eu/userfiles/files/40962497116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a6797e72899053882e24a8d0e8de38b/wokafujaxadajadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7bffd1f9c---sodajupifafoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/puwedoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76eed3b22e047f51d96df823798adc2e/41557334119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=definicion+de+las+relaciones+humanas+pdfPDF 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_off0000e02e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE02E 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 6914f474d336c88ac0aa7e291bb252c7770a861e5bcdbd4f9dad2c5e3f2f29b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF921 19140 bytes
SHA-256: cc56d017e2507315a3b994d9ce465b833dcdd7031001b9160be9eaf53c98f1e0
font_02_sfnt_off00012a55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A55 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1