Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d9e6cca9fa50782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:55:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ea0838337ac54572e2332a9aa309e1ed SHA-1: bd1b689d704f5e93527ae03dd1edabdf0c14dce0 SHA-256: 5d9e6cca9fa5078254ddb10a6f022dc4f2e3deefabfa2097fcdbe586e2356e8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many links suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b1858cdf6---dowigudepulonumemin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c988f1555f2---kuredalugozinedojudapuduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd603a654c9---23951044140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terrietanaka.com/library/files/goxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2a14aab68bb24e5cef822e4f6d4eb64/nalopeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteelephant.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0eb2d72aa5b809a361061793235c36c0/45185301368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa1b87d605---26202216476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/9069522273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/50201106562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afc9e12adc4414fcff631b2721a2483b/topiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772461848c1---7972802249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arfv6aaitldjpn45sso16707pb/lubukonixol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://principesgs.com/userfiles/file/tupozileruxigibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f704d4d7ba57f42cf2624def5be4186d/21343745661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbidc.kr/upload/editor/file/1630634094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/30587849989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olversonfamilyreunion.org/clients/5/51/51a48c89da211807e19ed56f8a1a1822/File/rebatoxasazorudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/sewasubapagifasodow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xedaptap.net/userfiles/file/tudixebenipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61da5da5191f75fd4fc0dcd9f3602b0/kimolimutaludeweno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c727ce9639---zanagumugikilunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a708875d769---zuxaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents//files/69186284291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=gcert+full+book+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_off0000f26b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26B 18076 bytes
SHA-256: 56f0aa3905d2016dd283a2b2f80ed2cde137e035c73420ae88de35d358a329e6
font_01_sfnt_off0001216d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13984 10456 bytes
SHA-256: be98baeb932a1ae0c0b3696369f60150dabe4e2a48e7a1dfbb50f02de765ead1