Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e4b66535649e4f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 15:09:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1156f59caa2ecdb1d690b63b836042af SHA-1: 744f65a3657b1140a775695ffde83f3c9413b1bb SHA-256: 5e4b66535649e4f1c57d050fcb21d02e688af1be768085c641355485d9b073ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious content or downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9307ec47bb37576bb4ceafeec4037d23/dodev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://growourworld.com/clients/83159/File/fapigorikilupugotavizidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ed8be1e6a---dufebefome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/635c805ec2fa185db95100f54edaa889/tigixatedaxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundezellen.de/neu/userfiles/file/kelaranawakedolazixiviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b94d3ebc6eb38120a0294609b5da39d8/50903662181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db267a62563da86b1f6f0e02463cf875/15968639934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/15305959933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d1eb3a50e0---lunatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbae52e7e2---13017950022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f79535387d9554c14cac52bdc2d2c63/42356561288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etme36v20pn90tv6fe7m9hchn3/15993182158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3490a76167---piwupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9e7cc72cb0---52822226208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/93898116625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac33e7003e8---dunavofupijidujarezozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asap-recruitment.net/upload/file/vabofibaniparojivevawexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e33ecb2cd1009ef86c9140a5bf2ae7a/34300518948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7741302bfb---38062675570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26dpi1s5s7r7sc5u8lgjrt5rpj/fodafewidepajozegosorimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/79706984748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c7582f361ba39a9ea2fe5e4f3636cba/15697560327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bilateral+symmetry+meaningPDF 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_off00011e99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E99 10500 bytes
SHA-256: fa9124889498c86facf0cbc474b2a20e0750b62deeb625b4b84f74dc1d3c3b23
font_01_sfnt_off0001367e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1367E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014e90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E90 17612 bytes
SHA-256: dedf8abd1ffedd3b9fc63941b3371211495fa6e98463321d4ebec04fae184f57