Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5de573013f1f8475…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-07-16 03:25:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3d0afbc2d862f8205531b8904956615e SHA-1: 451ea54a3e0986130e9eed93518d2dd1b1234305 SHA-256: 5de573013f1f84752ad1c121a532ef63c5eaa7aec3b03eb6d514f51fef49344c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering malicious payloads. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or redirect users to phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://sinarwaja.com/account/files/53769626026.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5oc6u4garv8p2848jinu5j16mb/62057285547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b52c94a957409b2f9394ff1462517b1/nizirefevubitelejegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jluqv6h7oh20sf9kbp6qmap2hc/53424962321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/xodenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9d1d15613---xobubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendybiz.in/usersfiles/file/84336315462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06034624033dc32e90872a849c3b7ed3/78772458259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skyfestival.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83742476447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082066c643f1---23089269093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6394ac50f9---madojozujirafesukupaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatour.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91755322953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7fbaac073---21381081148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sipiwenuzuwademasokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/19800571220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/8530898354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a569399e416---zenabidodumosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f8fcf2d6a7132a1662468d2141ee956/55305215059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f3c4fd177dd6cf225c3cbf7766e4ad6/zogetagivoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9e6e2fa35---52917412374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31fd26432afe0a5d849721ce0f65789e/86943501164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ndr1b1a8c57qplgj240k692gh4/bedijefixisoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/rijolufafofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/kipalaxumogabajavasenibem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f35f92f910---17187695263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalquestconsulting.com/userfiles/files/zefubepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+to+indd+converterPDF 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_off0000d70d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD70D 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 67b69edfa9dccde892bb5677e4d8e593a13c3f473910db6494015d1155d9e601
font_01_sfnt_off0000ede5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F7 16324 bytes
SHA-256: 49a31987d03f31b7d4c479b137c3e936439cd183691a7c84b6d8ea5e51475ff3

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