Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cd30778247fb789…

MALICIOUS

PDF

174.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 18:33:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b715e7cc99d54c1a0599d5a4ee857ef9 SHA-1: 918cbbde122fa697a1605b62f651ad7d73c26031 SHA-256: 5cd30778247fb7898a1a5b4de9d9c3c6e1469e60de5fea8796ca5bd81f050ba8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9904

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://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o75d55kudv0vs08u8o7r2u3a46/56989107984.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/zibekanorexiworuxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharajohnscreek.com/sites/default/files/file/vopalafise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6crun8vrss4gp3chi77u22vneu/sajefurude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983d2a12305---fiseloxuzonuxitobugek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92a63e1100ab8ba0c05f8792295510f/lidoxebanofitonililope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbhs1967.com/clients/8/89/8985ce50e7417da620f75e2af787291b/File/33298531982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4652f0bceb177df55b6384c41ec4a091/80635200157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/tosofifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrobrands.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d6fcc99f0b98868d008a87eb580f984/36275387235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assessmentinsight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojofaganuwujogezosozev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/vefivololabedaximoloto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8f5252c060---mivokikulunuduwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/12265217379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/20293741522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5a4f42ae9---lavupevemude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/63520335563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d71e69c4dc8---pazaxosufuwinebetififone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/pitezojofudujinuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/43502216599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohensevents.com/clients/74638/File/44576704527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5aecd56175a31aac202ba6a23b03396f/80655126346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a083bdfaf---gozotikuwuxutetawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3acfdeb0550f4a3a42c13cdb2c274f3a/zemeramubazavedabig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h88on4um4qtjh445mctu0f0954/18267400405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=since+the+time+of+john+the+baptistPDF 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_off00023a0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23A0B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00025222.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25222 10944 bytes
SHA-256: fdf17888fad9b59999142bde6186f4f439241234319af3c7687a4d807fb18574
font_02_sfnt_off00026b07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26B07 28408 bytes
SHA-256: 30ea4c39f0759a887b521e405d7e321555870896bc7e5ad621c4ef0a89393e2a