Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d2293fe87c5e90d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 09:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 716b6ed93726db8110912671fb3fab89 SHA-1: 7e734a59d6c28dc157d9e5bf33173b410a674cd8 SHA-256: 5d2293fe87c5e90d56c15ca1b2a966a6d1f74e4da22e140d6834d82ed252102c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and an ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites via a phishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cff71fd272609a24a6b9457985b4dc1/mesuvun.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f44aa2fefe08a838616681bbabcc93f/11761248026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songiadahoaian.com/upload/ck/files/74617668411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/41216641342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sdda59cqbqeljo4nuffi02i1k4/jujebizivisuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9d21033df---38053081857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0199d0701827f9cd02deb912907ca58/namene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3n5l378rpka3627ftkfggf9uro/mojabezabutojetopemezizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b31cc428ac343a777c16ab90f203d12/lidakodisesebeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/dodan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamasataccessories.com/userfiles/files/92149992033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/86796356304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/ramirulazawuzevabapux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210603_EC972990AECF4CCE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9511992e4d---247779857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea32bcd188---dovumejezopitudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210510021750_979364317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ft8michqv03i3nj8us86ppav9l/xozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/xobituzobozigofixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betheaskssd.com/flash/betheaskssd.com/file/84372430293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609395d582c74---bakepetevevetuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/25290914856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6ad1ee103---63867228270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/65159635216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ploy+meaning+in+tamilPDF 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_off0000cb92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3A4 17952 bytes
SHA-256: bebe66d1f050fe5a7cfc413433e559911062bbeeeec67f853ec7f48e70fa16ed
font_02_sfnt_off0001122a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122A 10296 bytes
SHA-256: c0c402de378396fbb0033ebcf26a041926e1483923369ee7773968de19bbd71f