Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ced137e72d8bfee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:25:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1b6885d6d3aba63d556f11ca18c526e5 SHA-1: 4c44f603202dae58ca0eabb923b2f54d99c34ddc SHA-256: 5ced137e72d8bfeef04628dd6b164114f49732db8c8c507bf1c83651f93f0a80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The primary function appears to be a link farm, likely used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8ee73f0e9---rubudanelezufunobalojoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa03b00717---lovevasebagoginowawigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210815085201_yppx9z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790c3de3408---11503432702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b030a7926cb---42746015244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/24814178441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2deda693287d164601965cf49d62e615/38055093317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d7b84ae38bf8f65c5e4a3d566cd9ac/litibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aodaixuan.vn/app/webroot/upload/image/files/76706408459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinabailey.com/upload/files/gajemufapuxuvilabedusomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/juwukitikefopijepodaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubslotalmatriche.com/calcas/file/sarivurevejesosawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumaradelsossio.it/userfiles/files/78437128184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/xezijonafefasanevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/dizosuteroligubuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc7a92752258eabc44ed528d687379fc/katomokigegubexomobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/wusij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mt-creativestudio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87447882814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/smlg2g1qrbh1rsr1v64j6ake1p/30747746551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a8df8a140---87438496120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.valaisconsulting.ch/file/45340049808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9vaevt133k3hsjr4qtpp35383/sidija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/52770742231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=compendium+of+materia+medica+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://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_off0000cba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA2 19764 bytes
SHA-256: 7b6f15d5e42167c35517fe42f63855a704f878a98287100a9fa530b895d24812
font_01_sfnt_off0000fee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F8 10700 bytes
SHA-256: c7e9d193d40151589684a75d14c5ff1aebe4965d88ac32f392c666033fae52d1