Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e1631b171a47457…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-07-09 21:36:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 54f5a870a9a9f232566a0d5baa0cc9df SHA-1: a8c499341b78762b9be0877b02c2a9069180be20 SHA-256: 5e1631b171a47457e72fa31411fb98032ea6f52aa62b17d94c5b71abb2efed3c
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support the malicious nature of this file, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nelk3sjk3lnk8vkkkr0762dlvc/78639303462.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/fivekukegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/libarinisozavuwefifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/71041886727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gphs100.com/clients/e/e3/e3ed30f4e85b1ff1e74f61348c82e8eb/File/desakeviguzepalamab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/92682300125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecowaytechnologies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daxafajewofarinamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.com/contents//files/tatetoxamem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0720e2bb2cc3bff24e87dbc00a76551d/pogezudis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rozgarnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23007391064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/46793143517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/nilokeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/93854002967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/86618122568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/tonixunojomameledij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210620201355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a3d5ae10730fe69a8b3018f9cc04ea0/95824184283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dfcd961f43f---netusedenoxatozomito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160805c41eb7c8---80412237932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/19974520641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd6a9e72e6e---lunurodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784e838ab45---minutamakimezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/37048743274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3bee702ec---22175641149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titibbs.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90449754107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consade.com/userfiles/file/kekudumabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=10th+level+preliminary+exam+questions+and+answers+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_off0000e052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE052 16628 bytes
SHA-256: 387242d35b9bc8d2e9c9cc61796f6e2a0dd72b3e88c2c937e6d6cb52cc48d25c
font_01_sfnt_off00010b67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B67 11456 bytes
SHA-256: f2c5e2185989fc03afb386bd42d9bbe1eb45ea516339f07e234d3897629d47a1
font_02_sfnt_off0001262d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1262D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1