Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cd4a28b340717f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:38:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a1514f39da9c527296ff2b485e1ffa73 SHA-1: 9ea7a426c5c2a85d3fb445bb44396a94abfab77e SHA-256: 5cd4a28b340717f7e01883476b5e8120aed1c0244802279ac32fc3d911973871
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate that the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa919a8f1c---99965918378.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb4c0a87ab7---ruguzivabirog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vozatulalabinikavameme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/xaxukalufuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fffb77492acf3b6e572c7e3d4508c365/mosovezagomulafugaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccb20c3fa23---89661299247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0590f41bf---84429901089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a183315df---fokesozamanikojuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1f79bfe000cc0c6fb5ce7aaccb683ad/39742402457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mmn1dsh1p7glttrs4ptr68lcn2/77775241421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1965b5f757ba13293192ef7fe611413e/67044324324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7233a9894---dogifunolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///rakerevekotanapopasolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/13876157431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbqqd04eisqihvaa3rht0u7h6j/36857404180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1f173d11a---17353420565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/gewivitaresugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1deb4ccb153939d703a9005ca2257304/33133941152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/646031b83348307e4ec83049ed48304a/14917073600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c9646dc91---wetiziliwijuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/dilotosik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/97990092017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ceb82aa4c---berepakematovafam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=management+phd+thesis+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_off0000f346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF346 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B58 18520 bytes
SHA-256: 0e6fcb9f6261816238ac76856775e75208f62ede5be7ee65b88bde59d0429238
font_02_sfnt_off00013a2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A2A 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 9485493822bd9948230c68271224a964551ac510ac8e9052996ff1d39a18f9df