Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e65139a935a8e14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:54:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 24ade7e5707a5f208d435145f64f9bed SHA-1: 77a52b5321370f6de21cf0315f1202037285a8a7 SHA-256: 5e65139a935a8e1488fd8baa431dda6c5dc1694141a97b430eafd6d439b1704a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple links to disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters indicate an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially track user interactions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a365cd4dda446eafd04cfec5f4004e8/20664648534.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/849f8213eb8842d278638af676cdd156/82914422384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0711d61de---86907074864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4e441eaa3f61c9a57b4fbe13d414052/nafapagiwevalivevimuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisikana.hr/userfiles/file/52284558015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/doxakejuluwawufuboxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fbc5eb678c14fded2adc2ba8c05c8cb/82956273312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426b8679eefd30f4f9fc7c4ee14dd124/kibinosavizegirufid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/71698909986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/291509293813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/zojiwaguzivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/tamoxelaxejisarafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeb3bc28e6b---lolisajili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/jakidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drivingtesttips.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/46556769325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debseven.net/UserFiles/File/45347423407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs-class1957.com/clients/35434/File/40763400826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.com/images/upload/files/laveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyosushilohaus.com/uploads/files/14130438152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/21322362012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/69253175425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b538e65efd8---40506518874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4385098add6030897b1b5ab6a3009a/lipapelimisutalizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=a+good+friend+is+hard+to+findPDF 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_off0000e001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE001 17640 bytes
SHA-256: fefa711b796911e42f17180ba694ff0047f13288b7b28f5948793fe6400f8429
font_01_sfnt_off00010e17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E17 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 07669be218bad433a6b141a0a9a3cb2317bd12242c4b2e6f8d5c8779834735eb
font_02_sfnt_off000125f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1