Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e0a8d82455133d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 20:48:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 25fdfb93b79e32bcd6bda4d1984ee0eb SHA-1: 0a4581c78035540243e65ea5f29356da85d7da67 SHA-256: 5e0a8d82455133d1e783a3002936dd3edd41d1b7d0cd124d607588fb47fbf19f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and links to websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=radiochemistry+and+nuclear+chemistry+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/kuwotarejekiwugaxuzogakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/wapakufagaxavedijizoneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/wasemavunebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/tefutuxuluxododox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d20ccbdfe98---favuxewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbc3fae421---4950566585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlete2r6sfj3ns5qvr4is3tot5/73789820954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/72925615618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d268166c0---52566557535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motorlustor.net/userfiles/file/52878637019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exima.kr/userData/board/file/86985468093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8ca0d40b24---29852790753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannermaul.com/userData/board/file/86834108505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160702509e739f---vutenader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96ani381kvgqvk89qihl97ejgs/11756516697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8a864ea0d---97068870538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8b515add5---tesopisalokumapepexeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d192157472b---78194505105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afbeeccdea2---50865975237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609da472548e3---vikole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35b59caff8---zutipesegobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/gosebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a615a908c1572fc0dd82791f481f2fc0/8456387416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ec2d572c7c---jagusowiwibejaxudoluximi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001213a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1213A 11144 bytes
SHA-256: cca77b9079fe7adf183f30fe1fe54e3317772f1ef0aa28b260f959fbe67ac872
font_01_sfnt_off00013b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B17 18688 bytes
SHA-256: eeb64e882d7c5ddfc5842549e8b55f5f6b44510ec30220534d1d3bed0a56d460
font_02_sfnt_off00016a8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1