Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5df9449f7b11616a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 21:22:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d11d375a92e0dd418a1422431e810c81 SHA-1: cc44d2771b56c432e63ae38cf30822087f573147 SHA-256: 5df9449f7b11616a118434a075bdff6aaf299a9135ea586be805c2af7e8a5fd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link farm.

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://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06aa6d44ca---74035129244.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40baab83d85bcb3844b9367be6cfaa0e/981586700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d91005b4c---fobenamotebapuwumowufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c91c2a54f---41536622403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutrisoilvietnam.com/upload/files/sekerifarevekolepubakapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pusancard.com/userData/board/file/29011880251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af5f19abd0---18993064799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc-lampang.com/user_img/files/vosovisejexiduvirokopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8559aa8f96379c555c9e74f1300f8698/naluwibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baa2e59dcc9---dawikuragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fec102d7b---lezetibusanifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/48437187533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9pf8mreecut4odumr2n6v6at2/lopefusarewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c8e355a01---zezuvilivakal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57bdc361c6---rigimipigepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9164b3155c9a8c55c0d20563d7e31e4d/98637346300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laflammerouge.ch/userfiles/files/buvedoropojuxunuwuzunin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aodaixuan.vn/app/webroot/upload/image/files/xapumagavifuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/79497870026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogninja.com/userfiles/files/98109531075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90261c315590bc58c3a0a14283e756a1/75313132615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cbd033cc3f---1480732178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf410eb1d5---30899913636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf6acb69ef---befolomoduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/10049394783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=gender+inequality+in+school+context+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_off0000ef5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5A 11216 bytes
SHA-256: fcf4f81cf2e22110fb1968f28e5997d18c647ea1fc4c7f7f90a60fe4aaf819de
font_01_sfnt_off00010967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10967 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 90a394b67293aeb423bb956d6ad126fd76fd93238809a0f10e70b007b970f702
font_02_sfnt_off0001365e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1365E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1