Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d197b0ee3dfbf18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-07-28 06:59:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b12b8bf59e431631b4ed2926b4caf031 SHA-1: c884a69c17f66c9dfccad0bf273a4360b04e33a5 SHA-256: 5d197b0ee3dfbf188dca40263cb9369f70b52eacb0be679b743191964d00567b
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 and other domains, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad105b83ae4---rijerasiwezebedepozibel.pdf
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/41570705360.pdf
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15m02q9v7qm9dcj37epnbvqap5/peluloxutox.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/96181415695.pdf
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/202166129438978.pdf
    • https://mn-lawfirm.com/box/userfiles/file/57133810310.pdf
    • http://efrex.cz/files/file/47519921253.pdf
    • http://emirates-offshore.com/uploads/image/file/17784358484.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p363hg0671sbh87odr7efidqhp/fedixatagalovapedo.pdf
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/57826132486.pdf
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38600d3b9f89a3bba347bcc6018a6ef8/91751737076.pdf
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.fr/file/panavabebobomefepapif.pdf
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/gagoxufefigafaba.pdf
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78e7ea405d01d53c96eb182cab215ba5/32446315942.pdf
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21c61bea0f---semutivoluroregonafum.pdf
    • http://jiendurancecoaching.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzegipafomirukozeje.pdf
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17ff9c62fb---62023007213.pdf
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/48519898335.pdf
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6cd1f3110f---nifepalokiluw.pdf
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/14762916395.pdf
    • https://bahceneryaman.net/public/content-images/files/96592308592.pdf
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/kuzabudadagov.pdf
    • http://bellina.pl/userfiles/file/189508341.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=present+perfect+simple+and+continuous+vs+past+simple+exercises+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4e8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E8 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010cff.bin
7da745ab114dfb0b730bbac24fa74b28ace5ac28882ae6df05545bfea93334df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFF 11052 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000126c5.bin
85719e26912154565365f73b2b2f40e0fb89b4d5945f46120413b138f4d9a634
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C5 17296 bytes