Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d51e03e237b2675…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-08-13 06:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c5d8afada196010c3f18e114dcece2bc SHA-1: 3031f45bc42f454a18f8a20f27d39c37e97606d4 SHA-256: 5d51e03e237b2675a38e9999a1286af65a229ff1857c4360f751fa0523a82e7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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.heksan.com.pl/file/zerono.pdf
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210703023801_f4o9mu.pdf
    • http://brette-animation.com/userfiles/file/bexodegada.pdf
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aef3d58b74---5648439977.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7e2c0dd7da---91609225050.pdf
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aa782830b---gixilexexife.pdf
    • https://dmitrovka-zn.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulazu.pdf
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rs3do4dbvtlhl7aqfvom9rfge7/tegufedigitom.pdf
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/xegos.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1f2ab9cfb---jevitidaxepijokoju.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d80cae701---futirudogudojin.pdf
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24004a590156a8053a296564da625f97/61444662562.pdf
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/sixitasemalafudidupagos.pdf
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/fuwopowibotel.pdf
    • https://uudanbury.life/files/file/84763151112.pdf
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/031804385222.pdf
    • http://fredericjean.net/oplusco/file/46343565088.pdf
    • http://geostudio.eu/userfiles/files/74030219653.pdf
    • http://ranchobg.com/img/file/80299442127.pdf
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/45242946519.pdf
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a554b87fea8---wewaw.pdf
    • https://kingcarmotorista.net/uploads/files/tupifegojevafo.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jku912q6beg8m49j0b5v45am0/fuluvaloke.pdf
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/2126908080.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=free+fire+hack+mod+apk%2Bobb+download
    • 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_off0000ee18.bin
c14037c1cfe6249ce20f236f09a084eb8767cb8656948d013be3699da00597fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE18 17424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011bb2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB2 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000133c9.bin
f23474d54958ef24e32e6af71dfed65ce894e7b33e480cdd803f3976f8b60384
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133C9 10912 bytes