Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e54ba319b987f89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 02:26:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2eed217faad3ed837b92845422bd02d5 SHA-1: 434a9510a3a111677cdb1ee12701231ca182f196 SHA-256: 5e54ba319b987f896343d30cdccddd684d1fb6970e28261e64227865b8b93cf7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure suggests it's designed to lure users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8r3oko8uekk8f1993s3alrdia1/69314810789.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082eeee38d45---52579173172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oiseaubleu-promo.fr/userfiles/file/vedivewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6992d29c6ead9ddb606d3261447f66cb/16691999849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/jized.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce0fc20ece---kiwofagijalusixatemulut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transbur.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/batazira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67282d6e871eb2c621e5163fa034ac29/fikilurilawujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18vgpqt4b49bbhpldc7iojk8m6/58474910478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c925koapl4juir9r11bq00h4q5/dakinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/1093221909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d14ce7dd6bdcd606f20bf313d9b96588/vunodimaxejugitemopuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17400690308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/79923191620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinturasoltra.com/images/slider/files/widawivuwalusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/83039976090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xehowo24h.com/images/ckeditor/files/gewiseluxojitukulukirar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1a736f3415---92827566718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/rolomevazixobowinoriligox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d735ae80e6554068c4c47617983d81/82311525167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityhighclassof77.com/clients/9/9e/9ea685038b5a197d2022a69b8c6b162a/File/62079311958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de29dbf3be4---luzon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/lufulixogut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8deshisi58ndgeu6vbqfu5bedr/71111424763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b37946cc075---73224670943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=figure+drawing+models+referencePDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0bddba68d6---50252128305.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_off0000e020.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE020 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 7df87adbc024d8fd3555f048953c3424df967988d12ea164009989af7a9037ba
font_01_sfnt_off00010d17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D17 10884 bytes
SHA-256: a1dfa20c044cb128154638b8939a6873ed196d5c8c51e5afee9e65090c75a537
font_02_sfnt_off00012618.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12618 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1