Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cedf15f4aef4eb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:15:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d3abdd0c77a21f14b24af07e2b08aabe SHA-1: cbfe88371d563a919b4cd51ec660c34f9bcf1ddc SHA-256: 5cedf15f4aef4eb364ab3823b6eee2b941f42e42e9d3b602b2683c07174f2107
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5d5371e48---digef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chuanghuilaw.com/filespath/files/20210826104732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qj8rni5r1v8983gf2hbfn9bu1/netedajokose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/dojowiwovibidokusujufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210831173341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/95160170285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fe9273557---vilugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/kebupuvisuravimoxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0c571718a---26868895952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efeotokiralama.com/Upload/file/sisuzutafalese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c397729f81---dizoxodejawobuzawagero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/webafozof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxgear.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dedosiziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afslab.asia/upload/files/95604368630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945ae2af400---92771257287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80d9068538---46144448504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rund.cz/UserFiles/File/gufetaxarukakexitumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/6060354222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/60d96690751c3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belean.pl/userfiles/file/dilewipamofakedulaxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1412d7465d39dab3c50d4deabf52f05/xitas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/61824601491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncer5iq13rd238r9q533eg7ja7/90407576006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/ladodefumipokulalisepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=%28not%29+getting+paid+to+do+what+you+love+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_off0000f14f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF14F 18360 bytes
SHA-256: d40a967414d06e385da28b7da3ca6c42d6c9adbc4baeb882349b45f78e087944
font_01_sfnt_off000120ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13904 10936 bytes
SHA-256: aa09ce234debe116213d974026ec602f253d59e100a0a13c2ee3cf7f0c33158f