Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e19d30a8ea21ae4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:11:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: d548709aa2459f722cf0e20354dcbabc SHA-1: 584e617156a5cfdc1cee43b5ef671c94cca8d9a2 SHA-256: 5e19d30a8ea21ae4e389d90c1d4f9c6c7008f2e8370abbb301cb7b3e84d5a40f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4e2dd5c13c---57941822803.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/wodulifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kugukoxujijenevefaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.climatisur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63909443481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/jifumokigolatolelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/15527598601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/644fe883cc469a58118d0b1e644fa10f/vakuzowakokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ca61ea7d7f---negolurinebosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee34c950869---tezepem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/6715837495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4c49949f51---3718801477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/jivafovuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gwynharmon.com/home/gwyn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikuketuwemekerixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/wituzosuvesobotugozak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/bovefufawuwet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/89673875179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teechart.com/uploads/images/files/81894649835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095660d0c7ee---worem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compufoxmail.com/userfiles/file/viwuparimuleviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6aca5a27a7---22298474331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.com/userfiles/file/20210720084234_233499193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=symplectic+geometry+and+topology+eliashberg+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://crossfit28.com.s125853.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/4913693152.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_off0000fe15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE15 18740 bytes
SHA-256: 8cc886b4c291142e6919ae90e468b4d86d438550698c534d811a0f6557b9f703
font_01_sfnt_off00012f43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F43 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 5c8c2b8af100a896d591e9a3cd56614f1776a11ca2fe2b74e582a2791459976a
font_02_sfnt_off0001497b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1497B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1