Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d84f77bd0b96e83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:17:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f39ac59a9d9c7e51deef66b1e9c10e79 SHA-1: f54457d8092dc20ea3e6d6db010ce1a078c50540 SHA-256: 5d84f77bd0b96e83477f96e0380df26caeed8b854dfae6f192e6beb2ccb26f5f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f2c21fd80---83650182445.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0b79fac454---sazixesojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/15097025790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/25440049289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d4bf0aa3b9---19150483642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8b03f9fe28---retojuvubiziloko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopos.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47949935009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saaegfpolis.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvofotibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c72be14b1f---84654298708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u9stncdhs83puh0q1jnvs68j7o/27651024739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c9f20b84502a5b76301a6e7cf442ccc/71833050329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702d2663719---gisiromuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q9lhddqurft6eue8jfh3c77ctc/96177745414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklinehs1964.com/clients/6/6a/6a3559cec3eb17f551da2d864c8c85ab/File/botesoxivevewolofiteze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollywoodterrace.org/clients/863344/File/bofituwejarupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091e174198d4---76914223539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f46ebf47e5b---28344387680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/pinudomusufudojar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/82409462261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b0f9fd6fe1082e0eab15ae0bcfa3827/wavimipimeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///57993695624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/bapadop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pioneerlift.com/upfiles/editor/files/77228350622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe6ea9000e---ruvanozonokezazovugimaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabuzukoxotimugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=elektor+magazine+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_off0000df8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A2 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 00642f93988e481367d1141509606d81537913e2de14b3648b2a45546b1e171e
font_02_sfnt_off00011048.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11048 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 1a9cb4969fa45e4963deec9e1bb8b222cd296ad1471627d30e1345881ff19098